Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting

Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting examines the way in which lone parents live their lives, and how it impacts their health and well-being. Topics explored in these interdisciplinary contributions include lifestyle, nutrition, and the mental health of both parents and children.

Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours, France

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Lone Parents in the UK Professor Ann Berrington Chapter 2 Lone parents, poverty and mental health: results from the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012 Professor Sarah Payne Chapter 3 Mental Ill-Health among Parents After Divorce and Separation: Causes, Consequences and Compounding Factors Dr Judy Corlyon Chapter 4 Surviving not thriving: eating and health in lone-parent families in the UK Professor Elizabeth Dowler Chapter 5 Child Health and Lone Motherhood: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Dr Denise Hawkes Chapter 6 The disparities in health and quality of life in child protection: The case of the Loire-Atlantique department Professor Catherine Sellenet Chapter 7 Family context and adoption of risky lifestyles: a study of English adolescents Dr Rosalind Bell-Aldeghi and Dr Sandy Tubeuf Chapter 8 Public health, social anxieties: the example of the English lone teenage mother Dr Lisa Arai Chapter 9 The Health of British Teenage Parents and Their Children Professor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq Chapter 10 Young Fathers and Their Perspective of Health and Well-Being: Examples from the ESRC 'Following Young Fathers Study' Dr Carmen Lau-Clayton Chapter 11 Lone Parents' Self-rated Health in European Comparative Perspective: Socio-Economic Factors, Job Quality and Social Protection Dr Ingrid Esser Index