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An 8 page research paper that offers a literature review, which demonstrates that the relationship between poverty and single motherhood is complex and also that it is fundamentally different between white and black families. The writer discusses family and childcare issues. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Nevertheless, in the public mindset, the single-parent households that are perceived as constituting a social problem-due to the role that government welfare plays in their fiscal situation-are the households headed
by young, single African American mothers. A fundamental policy assumption at the federal level is that the poverty of black single mothers is due to the fact that they are
not married. However, this overlooks the realities of black experience, which is that in "nearly 44 percent of black families with children, a woman is the primary breadwinner," and this
statistic includes "both families head by working single mothers and married-couple families" (Conrad, 2008, p. A12). The following literature review will demonstrate that the relationship between poverty and single motherhood
is complex and also that it is fundamentally different between white and black families. Family Issues Single mothers who have good relationships with their families of origin tend to
take advantage of these relationships in terms of childcare. In some families, such as the rural cases described by Nelson (2006), the single mothers moved back in with their own
mothers. However, some urban mothers take advantage of the close proximity of relatives. For example, in her insightful study of single mothers, Newman, in 2000, describes what she refers to
as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mother and brother, who live in the same apartment building, to
be her "adjunct eyes and ears, when she is at work" (Nelson, 2006). Without these familial connections, Newman relates that this mother would have to face "some unhappy choices" (Nelson,
2006). In fact, Cherlin (2006) relates that ever since Carol Stack published a ground-breaking study of low-income African American families in 1974, ethnographic research on single mothers has particularly
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