DIVERSITY IN SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES: Working from Strength

Edited by
Cathryne L. Schmitz, Radford University
Susan Steiger Tebb, Saint Louis University

Diversity in Single-Parent Families: Working from Strength is designed to fill gaps in current literature. The book presents strength-based service delivery options for single-parent families, which have been under-represented in literature and research. Research and appropriate service responses are organized by race/ethnicity, gender, economic status, sexual orientation, structure, and disability.

The editors begin by discussing the socio-economic issues impacting single-parent families along with a framework for strength-based practice. The following chapters focus on communities that have been marginalized and overlooked. For each community implications for strength-based practice are summarized.

The editors recognize a broader need to present factual data as a base for decreasing assumptive biases about single-parent family structures. This book could be used in micro and macro practice courses, courses on multicultural practice, and courses focusing on families and/or children.

Contents

About the Authors
Preface

The Multiple Faces and Realities of Single Parenthood: Support, Diversity, and Shifting Demographic Patterns, Cathryne L. Schmitz and Susan Steiger Tebb

American Indian and Alaskan Native Single Parents, Linda Anderson, Julia Putnam, Fransing Sinclair-Daisy, and Annette Squetimkin-Anquoe

Counseling Asian Pacific American Single Parents, Viqui E. Claravall

Latino/a Single-Parent Families: Implications for Social Work Practice, Maria Vidal de Haymes

Black Single Mothers and the Politics of Oppression: Efforts to Effect Change, Janese Prince

Lesbian and Gay Single-Parent Families, Sue Pearlmutter

Health Outreach to Low-Income, Rural, and Single-Parent Families in the Missorui Bootheel Area, Janice H. Chadha, Marjorie Sable, and J. Wilson Watt

Empowerment and Collaboration with Single-Parents of Children with Disabilities, Pauline Jivanjee

When Fathers Raise Children Alone, Geoffrey L. Greif

Grandparents Parenting Grandchildren of Drug-Abusing Adult Children, Faye Y. Abram

Successful Interventions with Single-Parent Families, Susan Steiger Tebb and Cathryne L. Schmitz

1999, Paper, 260 Pages, ISBN 978-0-925065-81-0, Price $44.95