Hardship and health in women's lives:
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Diversity among mothers 6
The language of diversity 11
Notes 15
1 Information on women s lives 16
1.1 Introduction 16
1.2 Sources of information 17
1.3 Who is included? 24
1.4 How are women s lives represented? 28
1.5 Working with the shortcomings 34
Notes 35
2 Settling down 36
2.1 Introduction 36
2.2 Pathways into motherhood 36
2.3 Caring for children alone 40
2.4 Settling into Britain 45
2.5 Family patterns among Black and White women 49
Notes 53
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vi Contents
3 Finding a home 55
3.1 Introduction 55
3.2 Housing policy 55
3.3 Access to housing 57
3.4 Homeless families 61
3.5 Living in council housing 64
3.6 Poor housing and poor health 68
Notes 71
4 Being a mother 72
4.1 Introduction 72
4.2 Taking responsibility for children 72
4.3 Caring for families 79
4.4 Money for caring 82
Notes 86
5 Caring for children 88
5.1 Introduction 88
5.2 The what, when and where of childcare 89
5.3 Help from partners 99
5.4 Help from others 101
Notes 105
6 Working for pay 107
6.1 Introduction 107
6.2 Trends in women s employment 108
6.3 Why women work 111
6.4 Mothers and paid work 113
6.5 Patterns of employment among lone mothers 122
Notes 125
7 Finding the money 127
7.1 Introduction 127
7.2 Sources of income among one parent and
two parent households 127
Contents vii
7.3 Social security benefits 129
7.4 Maintenance 137
7.5 Consumer credit 141
7.6 Debt 145
Notes 148
8 Making ends meet 149
8.1 Introduction 149
8.2 Families on low income 149
8.3 Spending in low income households 153
8.4 Trying to survive without help 158
8.5 Relying on others 162
Notes 166
9 Keeping going 167
9.1 Introduction 167
9.2 Gender differences in health 167
9.3 The health of mothers 169
9.4 Getting through 176
9.5 Cigarette smoking 179
Notes 183
10 Children s health 185
10.1 Introduction 185
10.2 Measuring children s health 186
10.3 Patterns of infant mortality 187
10.4 Patterns of childhood mortality 192
11 Concluding comments 198
Notes 202
References 203
Index 219
FIGURES
Figure 2.1 Families with dependent children: patterns of
one parent and two parent households, Britain,
1989 38
Figure 2.2 Heads of lone mother families with dependent
children, Britain, 1987 9 combined 41
Figure 2.3 Proportion of households with children
under 16, by ethnic group of head of house¬
hold, Britain, 1987 9 combined 50
Figure 3.1 Homeless households found accommodation
by local authorities by priority need category,
Britain, 1990 62
Figure 3.2 Housing tenure of lone parent families and
other families with dependent children,
Britain, 1988 9 65
Figure 3.3 Housing tenure of households with a disabled
child, Britain, 1985 66
Figure 3.4 Housing tenure of disabled adults who are
householders in households with children,
Britain, 1985 67
Figure 4.1 Carers devoting at least 20 hours a week to
caring, by family type 80
Figure 4.2 Domestic division of labour: responsibility
and tasks by women s employment status,
Britain, 1987 81
Figure 5.1 Women aged 16 to 59 living with children
aged under 16 by age of youngest child,
Britain, 1989 88
Figure 6.1 Economic activity of women aged 16 to 59
with and without dependent children,
Britain, 1989 114
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Figures ix
Figure 6.2 Economic activity of women of working age,
proportion working full time and part time by
age of youngest dependent child, Britain, 1989 115
Figure 6.3 Patterns of employment among married
women and lone mothers with dependent
children, proportion working full time and
part time, Britain, 1977 9 to 1987 9 123
Figure 7.1 Main source of income for one parent and
two parent households, Britain, 1987 128
Figure 7.2 Experience of income support: lone fathers
and lone mothers compared 133
Figure 8.1 Number of dependent children in households
with below 50 per cent of average income,
Britain, 1979 89 150
Figure 8.2 Proportion of dependent children in house¬
holds with below 50 per cent of average
income, by economic status of head of
household, Britain, 1988 151
Figure 8.3 Proportion of weekly income devoted to
housing costs and services, and to consumer
credit, by income, United Kingdom, 1989 154
Figure 8.4 Unmet need reported by families of
unemployed people who had signed on
continuously for 15 months, married/
cohabiting couples under 35 157
Figure 9.1 Health of married/cohabiting mothers by
housing tenure and income 173
Figure 9.2 Health of lone mothers and married/
cohabiting mothers 174
Figure 9.3 Health of lone mothers by housing tenure
and income 175
Figure 9.4 Cigarette smoking among married/cohabiting
women with and without dependent
children, Britain, 1988 180
Figure 10.1 Infant mortality by father s social class
(births within marriage only), England and
Wales, 1989 188
Figure 10.2 Infant mortality and marital status, England
and Wales, 1987 9 190
x Figures
Figure 10.3 Infant mortality and mother s country of
birth, England and Wales, 1989 191
Figure 10.4 Post neonatal deaths: sudden death, cause
unknown, by father s social class and by
births outside marriage, England and Wales,
1989 193
Figure 10.5 Mortality among boys aged 1 to 15 by
father s social class, England and Wales,
1979 80 and 1982 3 194
Figure 10.6 Selected causes of death among children
aged 1 to 14, England and Wales, 1989 195
TABLES
Table 1. The social class of some occupations in the
Registrar General s classification of
occupation 30
Table 1.2 General Household Survey and Labour Force
Survey measure of ethnic origin 31
Table 1.3 General Household Survey marital status
categories 33
Table 2.1 Place of birth and ethnic identity, Britain,
1987 9 combined 51
Table 2.2 Family types by ethnic group 52
Table 4.1 Patterns of responsibility and labour within
marriage, Britain, 1987 79
Table 4.2 Lone parents comparisons of their financial
situation, now and before they were a lone
parent 85
Table 4.3 Reasons why lone mothers feel better off as
a lone parent 86
Table 5.1 A mother s half day diary: mother living with
a male partner and two children, aged 6
and 4 92
Table 5.2 A mother s half day diary: lone mother with
two children aged 6 and 3 93
Table 6.1 Type of childcare among lone mothers
with preschool children using care 122
Table 6.2 Lone mothers in employment: mothers on
and not on income support compared 125
Table 7.1 Income support scale rates, April 1992/3 132
Table 7.2 Lone mothers reasons for not receiving
maintenance payments 138
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xii Tables
Table 8.1 Proportion of weekly income devoted to
selected items of expenditure among two
parent households on benefit, Tyne and Wear 155
Table 9.1 Proportion of mothers and fathers aged
18 39 reporting always feeling tired by age
and number of children 170
Table 9.2 Symptoms of stress reported by 56 mothers
in bed and breakfast accommodation 176
Table 10.1 Statistics on mortality in childhood 187
Table 10.2 Stillbirths and infant deaths by father s social
class (births within marriage only), England
and Wales, 1989 189
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