Single Motherhood
(see also Poverty & Welfare, Welfare Reform)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Berg, Renee. "Utilizing the strengths of unwed mothers in the AFDC program," Child Welfare 43 (1964).
Tuttle, Elizabeth. "Serving the unwed mother who keeps her child," Social Welfare 43 (1962).
Wright, Gerald C. "Racism & the availability of family planning services in the US," Social Forces 56 (1978):1087-98.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bowerman, Charles; Donald Irish & Hallowell Pope. Unwed Motherhood: Personal & Social Consequiences (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 1966).
Hertz, Roanna. Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice (NY: Oxford, 2006).
Hurley, Jennifer A. Teen Pregnancy (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2001).
Kanfer, Frederick H. A Mentor Manual: For Adults Who Work With Pregnant & Parenting Teens (Washington, DC: CWLA,2001)
Lindsay, Jeanne Warren and Sharon Githens Enright. Books, Babies & School-Age Parents (Buena Park,CA: Morning Glory, 2001).
Linn, Ruth. Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance (NY: Kluwer/Plenum, 2002).
Mattes, Jane. Single Mothers By Choice: A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood (?:?,?).
Morton, Marian J. And Sin No More: Social Policy & Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 (Columbus: Ohio State U., 1993).
Petrie, Anne. Gone to An Aunt's: Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers (Toronto: M&S, 1998).
Reed, Ellery & Ruth Latimer. A Study of Unmarried Mothers Who Kept their Babies (Cincinnati: Social Welfare Research , 1963).
Renvoize, Jean. Going Solo: Single Mothers By Choice (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).
Shapiro, Thomas. Population Control Politics: Women, Sterilization & Reproductive Choice (Philadelphia: Temple, 1985).
Solinger, Rickie. Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy & Race before Roe v. Wade (NY: Routledge, 1992).
Taylor, Debbie. My Children, My Gold. A Journey to the World of Seven Single Mothers (Berkeley: U. of California, 1995).
Ward, Martha C. Poor Women, Powerful Men: America's Great Experiment in Family Planning (Boulder: Westview, 1986).
Young, Leontine. Out of Wedlock (NY: McGraw Hill, 1954).