1st Edition
Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting European Contexts
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lone Parents in the UK
Professor Ann Berrington
Chapter 2 Lone parents, poverty and mental health: results from the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012
Professor Sarah Payne
Chapter 3 Mental Ill-Health among Parents After Divorce and Separation: Causes, Consequences and Compounding Factors
Dr Judy Corlyon
Chapter 4 Surviving not thriving: eating and health in lone-parent families in the UK
Professor Elizabeth Dowler
Chapter 5 Child Health and Lone Motherhood: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
Dr Denise Hawkes
Chapter 6 The disparities in health and quality of life in child protection: The case of the Loire-Atlantique department
Professor Catherine Sellenet
Chapter 7 Family context and adoption of risky lifestyles: a study of English adolescents
Dr Rosalind Bell-Aldeghi and Dr Sandy Tubeuf
Chapter 8 Public health, social anxieties: the example of the English lone teenage mother
Dr Lisa Arai
Chapter 9 The Health of British Teenage Parents and Their Children
Professor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
Chapter 10 Young Fathers and Their Perspective of Health and Well-Being: Examples from the ESRC ‘Following Young Fathers Study’
Dr Carmen Lau-Clayton
Chapter 11 Lone Parents’ Self-rated Health in European Comparative Perspective: Socio-Economic Factors, Job Quality and Social Protection
Dr Ingrid Esser
Index
Biography
Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours, France
Some lone parents parent alone; some are well supported; some fathers (or more usually mothers) in couples parent alone. This eclectic and forward looking collection covers a range of issues relevant to health and well-being.Helen Roberts, UCL Great Ormond Street, Institute of Child Health
