The Role of Social Support in Parenting for Low‐Income, Single, Black Mothers

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora P. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Single Black Mothers

scholarly journals Long-Run Earnings Mobility among Low-Income Individuals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Mullins ◽  
Mark Rider ◽  
David L. Sjoquist ◽  
Sally Wallace
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Earnings Mobility ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Employment Security ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Single Black Mothers

<p><em>We construct earnings mobility matrices for low-income individuals over 6-year and 13-year periods. Our sample of low-income individuals is drawn from the population of SNAP recipients in Georgia. Using Georgia administrative records, we identify SNAP participants in 2000 and their earnings for each year through 2013 using matched employment security records. We find that a substantial percentage of these individuals have zero earnings in both the initial and ending years. We find that there is a heavier concentration of males, whites, and disabled individuals with zero earnings in the initial and ending years than in the overall SNAP sample. This contradicts some of the characterizations of SNAP recipients in the popular press which often characterizes those stuck in poverty as single black mothers. In fact, the disabled represent the vast majority of those stuck in the no earnings category. Another interesting finding is that single mothers with zero earnings in 2000 have a greater probability, in some cases a much greater probability, of escaping the zero earnings category than the general population of SNAP recipients. We also find that individuals with positive earnings in the initial year experience substantial earnings mobility. </em></p>

Associations Between Employment and Financial and Parental Stress in Low-Income Single Black Mothers

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Gyamfi ◽  
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn ◽  
Aurora P. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Parental Stress ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Single Black Mothers

The Role of Social Support Networks in Helping Low Income Families through Uncertain Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hill ◽  
Donald Hirsch ◽  
Abigail Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Social Support Networks ◽  
State Support ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Low Income Families

In times of labour market insecurity and retrenchment of state support, low income families rely on friends and relatives as a safety net. This article explores the enhanced role of this ‘third source of welfare’ in light of these developments. It draws on qualitative longitudinal research to demonstrate how families’ situations fluctuate over two years and the importance of social support networks in hard times and periods of crisis. The research illustrates how social support is not necessarily a stable structure that families facing insecurity can fall back on, but rather a variable resource, and fluid over time, as those who provide such support experience changing capabilities and needs. A policy challenge is to help reinforce and not undermine the conditions that enable valuable social support to be offered and sustained, while ensuring sufficient reliable state support to avoid families having no choice but to depend on this potentially fragile resource as a safety net.

Intention to Breastfeed in Low‐Income Pregnant Women: The Role of Social Support and Previous Experience

Birth ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy S. Humphreys ◽  
Nancy J. Thompson ◽  
Kathleen R. Miner
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Intention To Breastfeed

Situational Stressors Among African-American Women Living in Low-Income Urban Areas: The Role of Social Support

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine J. Ajrouch ◽  
Susan Reisine ◽  
Sungwoo Lim ◽  
Woosung Sohn ◽  
Amid Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
American Women
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