Examines the structure of families headed by an unmarried male with minor children. Single-father research literature is briefly reviewed. (Author/SE)

Reports on a survey of 72 motherless families that indicates a need for future research and modification of social laws to meet the needs of fathers who rear children in the absence of mothers. (Author/SB)

Explores the problem of recidivism among children discharged from foster care by the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA). Results presented from this first stage of the study focus on the relationship of child and family attributes to recidivism. (Author/RH)

A survey of day care needs among families in a relatively wealthy suburban community disclosed many unmet needs and the persistence of problems about cost of care. (Author/DB)

Looks into the assumption that in planning for the discharge from foster care of children in one-parent families, the potential of fathers is often neglected. An agency study indicates that intensive casework and adequate services can make the return to fathers appropriate. (MS)

Discusses the legislation and assistance available for single parents, primarily mothers, who make up an increasing portion of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany. (RJC)

Discusses the claim that little has been done by health, social work, and educational professionals to speak up about the fact that children born out-of-wedlock lack the economic and psychological benefits that attach to the right to legal paternity. (RWB)

Examines the literature about people who choose to become single adoptive parents. Reviews the demographic and personal characteristics of single parents who adopt, and summarizes the experiences of single parents with the children they adopt. Calls for further research on single parents who adopt special needs children. (GH)

Describes the Residential Services for Parents program, which provides residential service for single mothers and their families. The program provides a variety of services including help with income, housing, abuse and other family dysfunctions, and prevention of separation. The program is effective in keeping families together. (GH)

Study explores the psychosocial difficulties facing homeless mothers with young children. Variables include impulse control, emotional tonality, social relationships, morality, goal orientation, coping, psychopathology, social adjustment, and sense of fatalism or control. Addresses value of results for designing social intervention programs for…

Describes an innovative five-day foster care program which takes into consideration the new demands for child care services created by changes in social attitudes and life styles. (Author/ED)

This paper addresses the special problems of teenage parents and their children, also problems peculiar to casework with this kind of client, and offers helpful approaches for social workers working with teenage parents. (GO)

Interviewed 1,343 single mothers in California who received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) concerning available child day care options and subsidies. Results suggested that efforts to increase target efficiency in public child day care subsidies by narrowly restricting eligibility may be reducing effectiveness on related policy…

Examines characteristics of children adopted in adolescence and characteristics associated with disruptions of adolescent adoptions. (BB)

Describes a research project designed to help empower the largely female child welfare staff and clients in a British Columbia child welfare agency by giving them more authority to shape agency practice according to their joint plans. (MDM)