Sources of income for lone mother families (Record no. 40999)

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Personal name Drenth, Annemieke Van.
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Title Sources of income for lone mother families
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Remainder of title Policy changes in Britain and the Netherlands and the experiences of divorced women /
Statement of responsibility, etc Annemieke Van Drenth, Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis.
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Extent pp. 619-541.
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Summary, etc The Netherlands and Britain have treated lone mother families in similar ways in the post-war period. Until very recently they have been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone mothers to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. At the beginning of the 1990s, both countries attempted (unsuccessfully) to enforce the obligation of ‘absent fathers’ to maintain. In 1996, the Dutch government took decisive steps towards treating lone mothers as workers rather than mothers. In Britain, the last Conservative government began to move in the same direction, something that has been confirmed by the new Labour government. This article reviews the structure and characteristics of lone motherhood in the two countries and the nature of the recent policy changes. It then reports the findings of an exploratory qualitative study of divorced mothers in both countries. The evidence from the interviews reveals the strength of the primary commitment that women in both countries make to care. It also shows the difficulties divorced women face in combining paid and unpaid work, which, we suggest make the pendulum swing from treating lone mothers as mothers, to treating them as workers unrealistic.
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System details note Mode of access: Internet.
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Personal name Knijn, Trudie.
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Personal name Lewis, Jane.
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Title Journal of Social Policy
Relationship information 1999, Vol. 28, Issue 4
International Standard Serial Number 1469-7823
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Uniform Resource Identifier https://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2078/10.1017/S0047279499005735
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