Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

Introduction: Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans.- PART I. Macro Perspectives on Lone Parenthood: Marie-Thérèse Letablier and Karin Wall: Changing Lone Parenthood Regimes: New Challenges for Policy and Research.- PART II. Subjective Representations of Lone Parenthood: Emma Salter: A Media Discourse of Lone Parents in the UK: Investigating the Stereotype.- Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq: Being a Single Young Parent in Great Britain by Choice? Life Stories.- Laura Bernardi and Ornella Larenza: Measuring and Modeling the Transition to Solo Parenthood: Perspectives from Aqualitative Study.- PART III. Demographics/Diversity of Lone Parents: Judit Monostori: The Demographic Determinants of Becoming a Lone Parent.- Sylvia Keim: Are Lone Mothers also Lonely Mothers? Social Networks of Unemployed Lone Mothers in Eastern Germany.- Laura Bernardi, Nadja Milewski and Emanuela Struffolino: Pathways in and out Lone Motherhood in Switzerland: a Comparison Between Migrants and Non-migrants.- PART IV. Income and Poverty among Lone Parenthood: Sabine Hübgen: Only a Husband away from Poverty'? Lone Mothers' Poverty Risks in a European Comparison.- Dimitri Mortelmans and Christine Defever: Income Trajectories of Lone Parents after Divorce. A View with Belgian Register Data.- Susan Harkness: The Economic Consequences of Becoming a Lone Mother.- PART V. Labor Market Behavior of Lone Parents: Michelle Brady: The Role of Informal Care in the Transition from Welfare to Work and Employment Sustainability: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Australian Single Mothers.- Emanuela Struffolino and Dimitri Mortelman:Lone Mothers in Belgium: Labour Force Attachment and Risk Factor.- PART VI. Well Being and Health of Lone Parents: Diana Dinescu, Eric Turkheimer and Robert E. Emery: Associations between Single Motherhood and Depression: a Co-twin Control Study.- Mine Hancioglu: Changes in Lone Mothers' Health: A Longitudinal Analysis.- Carmel Hannan: Growing-Up in a One-Parent Family: The Case of Ireland.-