Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. A Microsimulation Model of Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing
(Quentin C. Karpilow and Adam T. Thomas, Child Trends, Bethesda, MD, USA, and others)
Chapter 2. Does Being a Single Parent Effect Physical and Mental Health? Looking for Answers in the Literature and through the Results of the European Social Survey
(Csilla T. Csoboth, MD, PhD and Eva Susanszky, PhD, Former Employee of Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, and others)
Chapter 3. The Mental Health of Single-Parent Families in Relation to Psychological, Societal and Financial Parameters
(Ioanna Theodoritsi, Niki Daliana and Alexandros-Stamatios Antoniou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 4. Economic Disadvantage and the Prevalence of Single-Mother and Single-Father Families: The Intricate Links of Youth Crime
(Siu Kwong Wong, Department of Sociology, Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada)
Chapter 5. Single Parenthood and Career-Related Issues
(Alexandros-Stamatios Antoniou and Nikos Drosos, Primary Education Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and others)
Chapter 6. Psychosocial Dimensions of Single Parenting in Greece: Reality and Prospects
(Thomas K. Babalis, Konstantina Tsoli and Foteini Kirkigianni, Primary Education Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 7. Single-Parent Families: School Behavioral Problems and School Interventions
(Maria Gioumouki, Despina Smaili, Alexandros-Stamatios Antoniou and Thomas K. Babalis, Primary Education Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 8. The Psychosocial Adjustment and School Performance of Children: A Comparative Study on Students of Nuclear and Single-Parent Families
(Thomas K. Babalis, Primary Education Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Grrece)
List of Contributors
About the Editors
Index
Keywords: Teenage pregnancy, childbearing, microsimulation, single parents, physical and mental health, chronic stress, socioeconomic disparities, mental health, economic disadvantage, youth crime, career development, career barriers, employers’ policies, welfare to work, separation/divorce, unmarried mother, widowhood, psychosocial adjustment, school performance, school climate, family structure
Audience: Τeachers, parents, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate students, administrators and policy makers at all levels.
