A Growing Crisis: Disadvantaged Women and Their Children. Clearinghouse Publication 78.

Institution	Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC.
Titel	A Growing Crisis: Disadvantaged Women and Their Children. Clearinghouse Publication 78.
Quelle	(1983), (71 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Blacks; Economically Disadvantaged; Educational Attainment; Emotional Problems; Employment Level; Employment Opportunities; Heads of Households; Health Needs; Hispanic Americans; Income; Minority Group Children; Mothers; One Parent Family; Poverty; Quality of Life; Sex Discrimination; Socioeconomic Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Black person; Schwarzer; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Beschäftigungsgrad; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Einkommen; Mother; Mutter; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Armut; Lebensqualität; Sex; Discrimination; Geschlecht; Diskriminierung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	This report is based on the 1982 Current Population Survey data from the Bureau of Census and examines the declining status of female-headed households in the United States. The study concentrates on White, Black, and Hispanic women and their children. Factors associated with poverty are examined, including marital status, employment, and training and education. Health is cited as a variable that can lead a family into poverty and inhibit its movement out of it. Some of the study's findings are: (1) increases in unwed motherhood and marital breakup contribute to poverty among Black and Hispanic women; (2) teenage pregnancy prevents young mothers from acquiring marketable skills; (3) family socioeconomic status has a moderate influence on children's future economic status; (4) many women who head households remain poor despite their work efforts; (5) occupational choice affects a woman's earnings; (6) the lower the level of educational attainment of women, the higher the poverty rate; (7) inequitable access to vocational training presents barriers for minority women; (8) disadvantaged women lack access to health care; (9) linguistic barriers present problems for Hispanic women; and (10) poverty, particularly among single parents with poor education, is a major cause of emotional stress. (AOS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01