Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support: a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom
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Table of contents
LIST OF TABLES I
LIST OF FIGURES V
PREFACE STEEN MANGEN VII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Informal vs formal support 2
1.2. Comparing Germany and the UK 4
1.3. Research objectives and research hypotheses 5
1.4. Book outline 12
2. TRENDS IN LONE PARENTHOOD IN GERMANY AND THE UK 13
2.1. The emergence of lone parenthood as a new family form 13
2.1.1. Defining lone parenthood 14
2.1.2. The decline of marriage 16
2.1.3. The rise of lone parenthood 22
2.2. Structural characteristics of one parent families 25
2.2.1. Marital status 26
2.2.2. The age of lone mothers 30
2.2.3. Duration of lone motherhood spells 32
2.2.4. Number and age of their children 34
2.3. Employment, childcare and poverty 36
2.3.1. Labour market participation 37
2.3.2. Combining family work and employment 43
2.3.3. Income, poverty and social exclusion 48
3. LONE MOTHERS AND THE WELFARE STATE 53
3.1. Public perceptions of lone motherhood 53
3.1.1. Lone motherhood as a social threat 54
3.1.2. Lone motherhood as a social problem 57
3.1.3. Lone motherhood as a lifestyle change 59
3.1.4. Lone motherhood as a way of escaping patriarchy 60
3.2. The impact of welfare state regimes on lone mothers 62
3.2.1. Worlds of welfare capitalism 62
3.2.2. Gender sensitive welfare state regimes 65
3.2.3. From de familialisation to care regimes 69
3.2.4. Classifying lone motherhood in social Europe 71
3.3. Comparative analysis of social welfare for lone mothers 74
3.3.1. Social benefits for lone mothers and their children compared 74
3.3.2. British and German lone mothers on benefits: an evaluative audit 84
3.4. Maintenance regimes in Germany and the UK 89
3.4.1. Maintenance regimes in Germany and the UK 90
3.4.2. Maintenance policy logics 91
3.5. Carers or workers? Lone mothers role in society 96
4. LONE PARENT ORGANISATIONS AS SUPPORT PROVIDERS 99
4.1. Conceptualising lone parent organisations 99
4.1.1. Lone parent organisations as voluntary organisations? 100
4.1.2. Lone parent organisations as campaigning and interest groups? 104
4.1.3. Lone parent organisations as self help groups? 106
4.2. Lone parent organisations in the United Kingdom and Germany 108
4.2.1. Gingerbread 109
4.2.2. 'Verband allemerziehender Mutter und Vater' (VAMV) 112
4.2.3. Conceptualising lone parent organisations in Germany and the UK 115
4.3. Lone parent organisations as support providers 120
5. CHARACTERISING LONE PARENT ORGANISATION MEMBERS 129
5.1. Setting the scene: lone mothers in London and Berlin 129
5.1.1. Selecting comparison groups 129
5.1.2. Sample location and sample access 132
5.2. Socio demographic characteristics 134
5.2.1. Marital status 134
5.2.2. Lone mothers' age 135
5.2.3. Number and age of their children 13 7
5.2.4. Geographical ongin 138
5.2.5. Educational attainment 139
5.2.6. Employment 141
5.2.7 Means tested benefits 142
5.2.8. Time as scarce as money 144
5.3. Wellbeing and satisfaction of lone mothers 148
5.3.1. Duration of lone motherhood spells 148
5.3.2. Pathways into lone motherhood 150
5.3.3. A family history of relationship breakdown? 153
5.3.4. Lone mothers' satisfaction with their lives 155
5.4. Summary Who are the members of lone parent organisations? 160
6. INFORMAL SUPPORT MOBILISATION OF LONE MOTHERS 163
6.1. The operationalisation of support mobilisation 163
6.1.1. Matching resources and support types 163
6.1.2. Crisis events and support scenarios 165
6.1.3. Occurrence of crisis events 167
6.2. The extent of lone mothers' informal support mobilisation 170
6.2.1. Potential supporters 171
6.2.2. Actual supporters 173
6.2.3. Network size 174
6.2.4. Support units and support rate 175
6.2.5. The extent of support mobilisation per crisis event 179
6.3. Charactenstics and determinants of support relations 181
6.3.1. Contact frequency 181
6.3.2. Who supports lone mothers? 183
6.3.3. Give and take the principle of reciprocity 190
6.3.4. Relationship quality 198
6.3.5. Determinants of receiving informal support 200
6.4. Winners and losers in informal support mobilisation 205
6.4.1. Satisfaction with informal support 205
6.4.2. Winners and losers of informal support mobilisation 209
7 FORMAL SUPPORT MOBILISATION OF LONE MOTHERS 217
7.1. Sources and extent of formal support 217
7.1.1. Between earned income and social benefits 217
7.1.2. The maintenance trap 221
7.2. Utilisation of formal support in crisis events 223
7.2.1. Prevalence of formal support mobilisation 223
7.2.2. Multivanate analysis of formal support mobilisation 226
7.2.3. Formal supporters as main support 229
7.2.4. Previous vs current receipt of social benefits 234
7.3. Satisfaction with formal support 236
8. THE LINK BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL SUPPORT 239
8.1. The occurrence of formal and informal support 239
8.2. Extending the informal support mobilisation typology 242
8.3. Causes for using both informal and formal support 244
8.3.1. Support mix in regard to financial support 245
8.3.2. Support mix in regard to emotional support 246
8.3.3. Formal support use despite sufficient informal support 249
8.4. The interdependence between informal and formal support 250
9. CONCLUSIONS 255
9.1. Informal vs formal support mobilisation 2S6
9.2. The impact of different welfare states 258
9.3. Lone parent organisations as support providers 261
9.4. Social policy implications 262
BIBLIOGRAPHY 267
INDEX 289
List of Tables
Table 2.1. Lone parent families and children in one parent families in Germany
(West, East) and England Wales (absolute numbers and percentages) 23
Table 2.2: Marital status of lone mothers (percentages of all lone mother families)
27
Table 2.3: Percentages of children aged up to 18 living with a lone mother by
marital status of the mother 28
Table 2.4: Age of lone mothers in the UK and West Germany (percentage of all
lone mothers) 30
Table 2.5: Age of lone mothers m East and West Germany (percentage of all
women in respective age group) 31
Table 2.6: Number of dependent children living with a lone parent (percentages
of all one parent families) 35
Table 2.7' Age of dependent children aged younger than 18 years living with a
lone mother (in per cent of all lone mothers) 36
Table 2.8: Emplo\;aent status of lone mothers in Germany (East, West) and the
UK (percentages) 37
Table 2.9' Full time vs. part time employment of lone mothers (LM) compared
with married mothers (MM) (percentages of all lone/married mothers) 40
Table 2.10: Percentages of pre school children in childcare facilities by children's
age and employment status of their mother (includes lone and cohabiting
mothers), East and West Germany 46
Table 2.11. Net household incomes and consumption of lone parents (LP), East
and West Germany 50
Table 3.1. Non contributory social security for lone mothers (UK, Germany) 75
Table 3.2: Rates of regularly paid social security benefits available to a single
mother with a one and a half year old son (London, West Berlin) (in PPP) 85
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Table 3.3: Rates of regularly paid social security benefits available to a divorced
mother with a six year old daughter and a two and a half year old son (in
PPP) 86
Table 4.1. Organisational features of Gingerbread and VAMV 116
Table 4.2: Defining criteria of voluntary organisations (I), interest groups (II), and
self help groups (III) 118
Table 4.3: Services of lone parent organisations at national/regional and local
level 120
Table 4.4: Selected support forms provided by lone parent organisation
(percentages) 121
Table 5.1. Marital status of interviewees (percentages of each sample) 135
Table 5.2: Age distribution of interviewed lone mothers (percentages) 136
Table 5.3: Age of youngest child per lone mother (per cent of each sample) 13 8
Table 5.4: Educational attainments of interviewees (per cent of each sample) 140
Table 5.5: Employment status of interviewees (percentages of each sample) 141
Table 5.6: Receipt of means tested benefits (percentages of each sample) 143
Table 5.7' Standardised regression coefficients (OLS) with spare time as
dependent variable 147
Table 5.7' Reasons for being a lone mother (percentages of each sample) 151
Table 5.8: Parents' separation/death during childhood (per cent each sample) 154
Table 5.9 Positive vs. negative perception indices of life changes (percentages of
all responses per sample) (neutral responses not included in table) 157
Table 6.1. Support types and resource types 164
Table 6.2: Four crisis scenarios used to measure support mobilisation 166
Table 6.3: Frequency of occurrence of selected crisis events in London/Berlin 167
Table 6.4: Occurrence of crisis events in London and Berlin (in per cent) 168
Table 6.5: Total number of lone mothers' potential supporters (percentages) 172
Table 6.6: Total number of lone mothers' actual supporters (percentages) 173
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Table 6.7 Number of supporters per support incident (percentages) 174
Table 6.8: Mean scores of the total number of support units 177
Table 6.9 Support units and support rates compared 178
Table 6.10: Contact frequency between lone mothers and their supporters 182
Table 6.11. All informal supporters of lone mothers (percentages of selected
supporters per support incident) 183
Table 6.12: Lone mothers' mam supporters (percentages of selected supporters
per support incident) 184
Table 6.13: Quality of supportive relations to supporters per support incident
(proportion of responses per item in per cent) 199
Table 6.14: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression equation
with the amount of informal support units per year as dependent variable 202
Table 6.15: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression model
(OLS) with dissatisfaction with informal support as dependent variable 208
Table 6.16: Distribution of informal support mobilisation types (in per cent) 215
Table 7.1. Maintenance payments for children of lone mothers (in per cent) 222
Table 7.2: Number of formal supporters in emergencies (in percent) 226
Table 7.3: Odds ratios of formal support use in selected crisis events 227
Table 7 4: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression model
(OLS) with dissatisfaction with formal support as dependent variable 237
Table 8.1 :Support mobilisation patterns (in per cent) 242
Table 8.2: Sequences of informal vs. formal financial support mobilisation 245
Table 8.3: Motives for formal emotional support mobilisation inspite of informal
alternatives 247
Table 8.4: Correlation between support and general life satisfaction 253
Table 9.1. Validity of central research hypotheses 258
Table 9.2: Reduction of poverty by lone parent organisations 261
List of figures
Figure 2.1. Number of marriages in Germany (West, East) and England Wales,
1970 2000 16
Figure 2.2: Number of divorces in Germany (West, East) and England Wales,
1970 2000 18
Figure 2.3: Extramarital birth rates in Germany (West, East) and England
Wales, 1970 2000 19
Figure 4.1. Lone parent organisations between informal and formal support 127
Figure 5.1. General life satisfaction of lone mothers in London and Berlin 159
Figure 6.1. Occurrence of support provision in all four scenarios (in per cent) 180
Figure 6.2: Overall reciprocity rates in support relations 193
Figure 6.3: Dissatisfaction with informal support in London and Berlin 206
Figure 6.4: A typology of informal support mobilisation 210
Figure 7.1. Lone mothers' income sources in London and Berlin (in per cent) 218
Figure 8.1. Support mobilisation patterns 241 |
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Table of contents
LIST OF TABLES I
LIST OF FIGURES V
PREFACE STEEN MANGEN VII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Informal vs formal support 2
1.2. Comparing Germany and the UK 4
1.3. Research objectives and research hypotheses 5
1.4. Book outline 12
2. TRENDS IN LONE PARENTHOOD IN GERMANY AND THE UK 13
2.1. The emergence of lone parenthood as a new family form 13
2.1.1. Defining lone parenthood 14
2.1.2. The decline of marriage 16
2.1.3. The rise of lone parenthood 22
2.2. Structural characteristics of one parent families 25
2.2.1. Marital status 26
2.2.2. The age of lone mothers 30
2.2.3. Duration of lone motherhood spells 32
2.2.4. Number and age of their children 34
2.3. Employment, childcare and poverty 36
2.3.1. Labour market participation 37
2.3.2. Combining family work and employment 43
2.3.3. Income, poverty and social exclusion 48
3. LONE MOTHERS AND THE WELFARE STATE 53
3.1. Public perceptions of lone motherhood 53
3.1.1. Lone motherhood as a social threat 54
3.1.2. Lone motherhood as a social problem 57
3.1.3. Lone motherhood as a lifestyle change 59
3.1.4. Lone motherhood as a way of escaping patriarchy 60
3.2. The impact of welfare state regimes on lone mothers 62
3.2.1. Worlds of welfare capitalism 62
3.2.2. Gender sensitive welfare state regimes 65
3.2.3. From de familialisation to care regimes 69
3.2.4. Classifying lone motherhood in social Europe 71
3.3. Comparative analysis of social welfare for lone mothers 74
3.3.1. Social benefits for lone mothers and their children compared 74
3.3.2. British and German lone mothers on benefits: an evaluative audit 84
3.4. Maintenance regimes in Germany and the UK 89
3.4.1. Maintenance regimes in Germany and the UK 90
3.4.2. Maintenance policy logics 91
3.5. Carers or workers? Lone mothers role in society 96
4. LONE PARENT ORGANISATIONS AS SUPPORT PROVIDERS 99
4.1. Conceptualising lone parent organisations 99
4.1.1. Lone parent organisations as voluntary organisations? 100
4.1.2. Lone parent organisations as campaigning and interest groups? 104
4.1.3. Lone parent organisations as self help groups? 106
4.2. Lone parent organisations in the United Kingdom and Germany 108
4.2.1. Gingerbread 109
4.2.2. 'Verband allemerziehender Mutter und Vater' (VAMV) 112
4.2.3. Conceptualising lone parent organisations in Germany and the UK 115
4.3. Lone parent organisations as support providers 120
5. CHARACTERISING LONE PARENT ORGANISATION MEMBERS 129
5.1. Setting the scene: lone mothers in London and Berlin 129
5.1.1. Selecting comparison groups 129
5.1.2. Sample location and sample access 132
5.2. Socio demographic characteristics 134
5.2.1. Marital status 134
5.2.2. Lone mothers' age 135
5.2.3. Number and age of their children 13 7
5.2.4. Geographical ongin 138
5.2.5. Educational attainment 139
5.2.6. Employment 141
5.2.7 Means tested benefits 142
5.2.8. Time as scarce as money 144
5.3. Wellbeing and satisfaction of lone mothers 148
5.3.1. Duration of lone motherhood spells 148
5.3.2. Pathways into lone motherhood 150
5.3.3. A family history of relationship breakdown? 153
5.3.4. Lone mothers' satisfaction with their lives 155
5.4. Summary Who are the members of lone parent organisations? 160
6. INFORMAL SUPPORT MOBILISATION OF LONE MOTHERS 163
6.1. The operationalisation of support mobilisation 163
6.1.1. Matching resources and support types 163
6.1.2. Crisis events and support scenarios 165
6.1.3. Occurrence of crisis events 167
6.2. The extent of lone mothers' informal support mobilisation 170
6.2.1. Potential supporters 171
6.2.2. Actual supporters 173
6.2.3. Network size 174
6.2.4. Support units and support rate 175
6.2.5. The extent of support mobilisation per crisis event 179
6.3. Charactenstics and determinants of support relations 181
6.3.1. Contact frequency 181
6.3.2. Who supports lone mothers? 183
6.3.3. Give and take the principle of reciprocity 190
6.3.4. Relationship quality 198
6.3.5. Determinants of receiving informal support 200
6.4. Winners and losers in informal support mobilisation 205
6.4.1. Satisfaction with informal support 205
6.4.2. Winners and losers of informal support mobilisation 209
7 FORMAL SUPPORT MOBILISATION OF LONE MOTHERS 217
7.1. Sources and extent of formal support 217
7.1.1. Between earned income and social benefits 217
7.1.2. The maintenance trap 221
7.2. Utilisation of formal support in crisis events 223
7.2.1. Prevalence of formal support mobilisation 223
7.2.2. Multivanate analysis of formal support mobilisation 226
7.2.3. Formal supporters as main support 229
7.2.4. Previous vs current receipt of social benefits 234
7.3. Satisfaction with formal support 236
8. THE LINK BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL SUPPORT 239
8.1. The occurrence of formal and informal support 239
8.2. Extending the informal support mobilisation typology 242
8.3. Causes for using both informal and formal support 244
8.3.1. Support mix in regard to financial support 245
8.3.2. Support mix in regard to emotional support 246
8.3.3. Formal support use despite sufficient informal support 249
8.4. The interdependence between informal and formal support 250
9. CONCLUSIONS 255
9.1. Informal vs formal support mobilisation 2S6
9.2. The impact of different welfare states 258
9.3. Lone parent organisations as support providers 261
9.4. Social policy implications 262
BIBLIOGRAPHY 267
INDEX 289
List of Tables
Table 2.1. Lone parent families and children in one parent families in Germany
(West, East) and England Wales (absolute numbers and percentages) 23
Table 2.2: Marital status of lone mothers (percentages of all lone mother families)
27
Table 2.3: Percentages of children aged up to 18 living with a lone mother by
marital status of the mother 28
Table 2.4: Age of lone mothers in the UK and West Germany (percentage of all
lone mothers) 30
Table 2.5: Age of lone mothers m East and West Germany (percentage of all
women in respective age group) 31
Table 2.6: Number of dependent children living with a lone parent (percentages
of all one parent families) 35
Table 2.7' Age of dependent children aged younger than 18 years living with a
lone mother (in per cent of all lone mothers) 36
Table 2.8: Emplo\;aent status of lone mothers in Germany (East, West) and the
UK (percentages) 37
Table 2.9' Full time vs. part time employment of lone mothers (LM) compared
with married mothers (MM) (percentages of all lone/married mothers) 40
Table 2.10: Percentages of pre school children in childcare facilities by children's
age and employment status of their mother (includes lone and cohabiting
mothers), East and West Germany 46
Table 2.11. Net household incomes and consumption of lone parents (LP), East
and West Germany 50
Table 3.1. Non contributory social security for lone mothers (UK, Germany) 75
Table 3.2: Rates of regularly paid social security benefits available to a single
mother with a one and a half year old son (London, West Berlin) (in PPP) 85
ii
Table 3.3: Rates of regularly paid social security benefits available to a divorced
mother with a six year old daughter and a two and a half year old son (in
PPP) 86
Table 4.1. Organisational features of Gingerbread and VAMV 116
Table 4.2: Defining criteria of voluntary organisations (I), interest groups (II), and
self help groups (III) 118
Table 4.3: Services of lone parent organisations at national/regional and local
level 120
Table 4.4: Selected support forms provided by lone parent organisation
(percentages) 121
Table 5.1. Marital status of interviewees (percentages of each sample) 135
Table 5.2: Age distribution of interviewed lone mothers (percentages) 136
Table 5.3: Age of youngest child per lone mother (per cent of each sample) 13 8
Table 5.4: Educational attainments of interviewees (per cent of each sample) 140
Table 5.5: Employment status of interviewees (percentages of each sample) 141
Table 5.6: Receipt of means tested benefits (percentages of each sample) 143
Table 5.7' Standardised regression coefficients (OLS) with spare time as
dependent variable 147
Table 5.7' Reasons for being a lone mother (percentages of each sample) 151
Table 5.8: Parents' separation/death during childhood (per cent each sample) 154
Table 5.9 Positive vs. negative perception indices of life changes (percentages of
all responses per sample) (neutral responses not included in table) 157
Table 6.1. Support types and resource types 164
Table 6.2: Four crisis scenarios used to measure support mobilisation 166
Table 6.3: Frequency of occurrence of selected crisis events in London/Berlin 167
Table 6.4: Occurrence of crisis events in London and Berlin (in per cent) 168
Table 6.5: Total number of lone mothers' potential supporters (percentages) 172
Table 6.6: Total number of lone mothers' actual supporters (percentages) 173
iii
Table 6.7 Number of supporters per support incident (percentages) 174
Table 6.8: Mean scores of the total number of support units 177
Table 6.9 Support units and support rates compared 178
Table 6.10: Contact frequency between lone mothers and their supporters 182
Table 6.11. All informal supporters of lone mothers (percentages of selected
supporters per support incident) 183
Table 6.12: Lone mothers' mam supporters (percentages of selected supporters
per support incident) 184
Table 6.13: Quality of supportive relations to supporters per support incident
(proportion of responses per item in per cent) 199
Table 6.14: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression equation
with the amount of informal support units per year as dependent variable 202
Table 6.15: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression model
(OLS) with dissatisfaction with informal support as dependent variable 208
Table 6.16: Distribution of informal support mobilisation types (in per cent) 215
Table 7.1. Maintenance payments for children of lone mothers (in per cent) 222
Table 7.2: Number of formal supporters in emergencies (in percent) 226
Table 7.3: Odds ratios of formal support use in selected crisis events 227
Table 7 4: Standardised regression coefficients of a multiple regression model
(OLS) with dissatisfaction with formal support as dependent variable 237
Table 8.1 :Support mobilisation patterns (in per cent) 242
Table 8.2: Sequences of informal vs. formal financial support mobilisation 245
Table 8.3: Motives for formal emotional support mobilisation inspite of informal
alternatives 247
Table 8.4: Correlation between support and general life satisfaction 253
Table 9.1. Validity of central research hypotheses 258
Table 9.2: Reduction of poverty by lone parent organisations 261
List of figures
Figure 2.1. Number of marriages in Germany (West, East) and England Wales,
1970 2000 16
Figure 2.2: Number of divorces in Germany (West, East) and England Wales,
1970 2000 18
Figure 2.3: Extramarital birth rates in Germany (West, East) and England
Wales, 1970 2000 19
Figure 4.1. Lone parent organisations between informal and formal support 127
Figure 5.1. General life satisfaction of lone mothers in London and Berlin 159
Figure 6.1. Occurrence of support provision in all four scenarios (in per cent) 180
Figure 6.2: Overall reciprocity rates in support relations 193
Figure 6.3: Dissatisfaction with informal support in London and Berlin 206
Figure 6.4: A typology of informal support mobilisation 210
Figure 7.1. Lone mothers' income sources in London and Berlin (in per cent) 218
Figure 8.1. Support mobilisation patterns 241 |
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| spelling | Hoff, Andreas Verfasser aut Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Andreas Hoff Lewiston, NY [u.a.] Mellen 2006 X, 292 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [267] - 287) and index Single mothers - Services for - Germany Single mothers - Services for - Great Britain Single mothers - Social networks - Germany Single mothers - Social networks - Great Britain Welfare recipients - Germany Welfare recipients - Great Britain Women heads of households - Germany Women heads of households - Great Britain Single mothers Services for Germany Single mothers Services for Great Britain Single mothers Social networks Germany Single mothers Social networks Great Britain Women heads of households Germany Women heads of households Great Britain Welfare recipients Germany Welfare recipients Great Britain Soziales Netzwerk (DE-588)4055762-5 gnd rswk-swf Alleinerziehende Mutter (DE-588)4001238-4 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland Großbritannien Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 g Alleinerziehende Mutter (DE-588)4001238-4 s Soziales Netzwerk (DE-588)4055762-5 s Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g DE-604 HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015038864&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Hoff, Andreas Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Single mothers - Services for - Germany Single mothers - Services for - Great Britain Single mothers - Social networks - Germany Single mothers - Social networks - Great Britain Welfare recipients - Germany Welfare recipients - Great Britain Women heads of households - Germany Women heads of households - Great Britain Single mothers Services for Germany Single mothers Services for Great Britain Single mothers Social networks Germany Single mothers Social networks Great Britain Women heads of households Germany Women heads of households Great Britain Welfare recipients Germany Welfare recipients Great Britain Soziales Netzwerk (DE-588)4055762-5 gnd Alleinerziehende Mutter (DE-588)4001238-4 gnd |
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| title | Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom |
| title_auth | Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom |
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| title_full | Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Andreas Hoff |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Andreas Hoff |
| title_short | Lone mothers between the welfare state and informal support |
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| title_sub | a cross-national comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom |
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