The New Uprooted
Single Mothers in Urban Life
By Elizabeth A. Mulroy
Foreword by Philip W. Johnston
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The New Uprooted
explores the relationship between the single mother and her social and physical environments. Mulroy examines how demographically diverse single mothers 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 settlement issue is 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.
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In this book, Mulroy contributes greatly to the understanding of the experiences of single mothers, particularly those living in urban areas, and provides the reader with a wealth of demographic and statistical data. Highly recommended for policy makers, scholars, students of public policy, and the informed general public.
—Choice
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"The personal stories of the women are a strength of this book. Through their experiences the reader sees how the struggle to obtain stable housing is a major issue for many of them and how this affects all other aspects of their lives....[this book] provides a vivid picture of the struggle to meet basic needs facing single-mother families at all income levels. The author also presents a range of policy options and actions that can assist single mothers as they attempt to provide stable homes for their children. It is a very readable book that would be useful for policymakers and for instructors who might use it as a supplemental text for a beginning social policy course."
—Social Work
Endorsement From Rosemary C. Sarri, Professor Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research The University of Michigan
Mulroy provides a new perspective on a major social issue of the 1990s, single mothers and their families. She points to the major social changes in the social and physical environment that together have had a significant impact on family structure in the past two decades....Implementation of her recommendations would provide a strong counter to the present drift toward crime, violence, substance abuse, and unemployment that are destroying the family, especially in urban communities. Mulroy's emphasis on the importance of understanding and meeting basic needs is critical today when so little attention is being directed to this issue. She provides a conceptual framework that will be useful for both practitioners and researchers. Likewise, her presentation of a number of case studies provides vivid pictures about what life is really like for a major segment of single mother families.
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