The Dynamics of Lone Parents, Employment and Poverty in Great Britain
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Lone parents are a growing group in Great Britain and elsewhere, and one with high rates of poverty and receipt of social assistance. This article investigates some of the links between lone parenthood, economic activity and social background. It also provides longitudinal and event-history analysis of life-history data from mid-1990s Great Britain, to look at transitions between different family types, and across difference economic states. It finds that there is no simple one-way causation between family change and low rates of economic activity (and hence poverty). Rates of paid work were quite low before the transition into lone parenthood, and hardly rise among those leaving lone parenthood. The answer may be found in the generally poorer economic circumstances of those becoming lone parents. Poor socioeconomic backgrounds are strongly associated with moves into lone parenthood (via births to single women and partnership breakdown) – as is shown using multivariate analysis of transition rates.
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