Relationships of Care: Working Lone Mothers, their Children and Employment Sustainability

The Employment of Lone Mothers in Denmark and Great Britain

Do low-income lone mothers compromise their nutrition to feed their children?

BACKGROUND Women who live in disadvantaged circumstances in Canada exhibit dietary intakes below recommended levels, but their children often do not. One reason for this difference may be that mothers modify their own food intake to spare their children nutritional deprivation. The objective of our study was to document whether or not low-income lone mothers compromise their own diets to feed t...

Food insecurity of low-income lone mothers and their children in Atlantic Canada.

OBJECTIVE To examine the occurrence and predictors of hunger and food insecurity over the past year and month among low-income mother-led households in Atlantic Canada. METHOD The Cornell-Radimer Questionnaire to Estimate the Prevalence of Hunger and Food Insecurity was administered weekly for a month, with modifications, to a community sample of 141 lone mothers who took part in a larger die...

Self-reported Health among Lone Mothers in Switzerland: Do Employment and Education Matter?

Lone mothers may have several difficulties taking up employment, especially if they live in a country where parents receive little support to reconcile work and family life. Under such circumstances, is it better to work in order to raise one’s income, even if life is more stressful, or to withdraw from the labour force? What is the association between employment and health? This is the questio...

Mothers’ Employment and Their Children’s Educational Gender Gap∗

Labor force participation rates of married women have increased substantially since 1950s; and the educational gender gaps for cohorts born after 1950 have also witnessed a shrinkage and, in fact, a reversal. In this paper, we advance a novel connection between the two trends: the decrease in the maternal time input in the children’s education as a result of the increase in maternal employment ...