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Poverty has gradually become an issue of particular concern to women because families composed of single mothers and their children are the fastest-growing segment in the poverty population. By 1978, 49% of all families in poverty were headed by a single woman, and 56% of all children (under age 18) in poverty were in single-mother families.
Special thanks are extended to Sean Flaherty for his assistance in the research for this chapter and for his comments on an erlier draft. Support was provide by the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley.
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Brown, C.V. (1982). Bringing Down the Rear: The Decline in the Relative Economic Position of Single-Mother Families. In: Hoiberg, A. (eds) Women and the World of Work. Nato Conference Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3482-8_9
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