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Download full textRoss, Heather L.; Sawhill, Isabel V. – 1975
Single parent families, usually headed by women, are transitional in two important senses: they frequently represent a transitional stage between marriages; and they are a symptom of the transition from a "distributive" family structure, in which a man provides resources for financially dependent women and children, to a form characterized by less…
Descriptors: Black Family, Child Support, Family Financial Resources, Family (Sociological Unit)
