Research and Statistics

h2 id="y">Families, Poverty, Work and Care: A Review of the Literature on lone parents and Low-Income Couple Families

Research Report No. 153

By Professor Jane Millar and Dr.Tess Ridge

This literature review conducted by the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy at the University of Bath provides a critical summary of recent research on families, focusing on lone parents and low-income couples with children. The three main substantive topics covered are family patterns and dynamics; poverty and living standards; and employment patterns, barriers to work and the impact of welfare to work programmes.

November 2001 248 pages 297x210mm

ISBN 1 84123 406 0 £38.50

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