Beyond mothers who father : the study of female headship
Liu, Chia (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Additional title:	Au-delà des pères absents : les ménages où le chef de famille est une femme
Date:	2016
Abstract:	More than half of a century has passed since Edith Clark first wrote "My Mother Who Fathered Me" in 1957, a classic study on single motherhood (marriage, sex, and concubinage) in Jamaica at the time. The Caribbean, along with Latin America, continue to experience high levels of non-marital childbearing today. The traditional narrative of female headship tells the story of single mothers raising children with limited male assistance, whereas in modern reality female headship occurs under a plethora of circumstances. Latin America in particular has not only experienced a rise in cohabitation, but such expansion has reached even the higher strata of the societies, as predicted by the second demographic transition (LaPlante, et al, 2015; Lesthaeghe, 2014). This phenomenon thus begs the question: how should we interpret female headship now?.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Household ; Female headship ; Latin America ; Female-headed household
Published in:	IUSSP's online news magazine, November 2016

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