"The New Uprooted" explores the relationship between the single
mother and her social and physical environments. Mulroy examines
how demographically diverse single mothers (in terms of race,
class, marital status, urban or suburban location, educational
level, and employment status) experience dual roles as sole family
breadwinner and sole resident parent in the 1990s environment of
scarce resources. Families headed by single mothers have become a
unit of social concern not only because they represent a changing
family form, but because their economic marginality threatens a
downward spiral toward the instability of urban poverty. The
mothers' key issues are the high cost of housing their families in
relation to low wages, irregular or nonpayment of child support,
public welfare benefit levels, and the effects of domestic
violence.
The book is based on multi-method research that includes
analyses of the most recent census data relative to the changing
composition of families and households, economic trends, and
employment; analysis of recent empirical studies on increased
neighborhood poverty and urban restructuring; and field research on
the coping strategies of 73 single mothers. It will be of interest
to public policymakers, scholars, and students of the contemporary
American family, housing, and welfare issues.
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