Lone Mothers' Employment Trajectories: A Longitudinal Mixed-method Study

The Employment of Lone Mothers in Denmark and Great Britain

Mortality among lone mothers in Sweden: a population study.

BACKGROUND An increasing number of lone mothers are experiencing financial and health disadvantages. Our aim was to assess mortality among lone mothers compared with mothers with partners. METHODS In this population-based study, overall and cause-specific mortality, between 1991 and 1995, was estimated for 90,111 lone mothers and 622,368 mothers with partners from data collected in the Swedis...

Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine longitudinal patterns of growth trajectories in children of women with eating disorders (ED): anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). DESIGN Prospective longitudinal birth cohort; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). SETTING South West England, UK. PARTICIPANTS The sample consisted of women and their children (n=1...

Self-reported Health among Lone Mothers in Switzerland: Do Employment and Education Matter?

Lone mothers may have several difficulties taking up employment, especially if they live in a country where parents receive little support to reconcile work and family life. Under such circumstances, is it better to work in order to raise one’s income, even if life is more stressful, or to withdraw from the labour force? What is the association between employment and health? This is the questio...

Family Trajectories and Well-being of Children Born to Lone Mothers in the UK

We investigate how lone mothers' heterogeneity in partnership trajectories is associated with children's well-being. We use data from the Millennium Cohort Study, which follows a large sample of children born in the UK in 2000-2002. We divide children who were born to lone mothers into four groups based on their mothers' partnership trajectories between birth and age seven, which cover more tha...