Single Parent Families and Poverty in Continental Welfare States: Examining Dutch Policy Responses to New Social Risks

Duyulmus, Cem Utku and van den Berg, Axel (2015) Single Parent Families and Poverty in Continental Welfare States: Examining Dutch Policy Responses to New Social Risks. [Conference Proceedings] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

An interdisciplinary literature demonstrates that lone-parent families confront the new social risks as an overwhelmingly feminized group and have a higher risk of poverty. Recent research also demonstrates cross-national differences in single-parent poverty and emphasizes the role of social policy settings in various welfare states in shaping the economic security of single-mother families. How do welfare regimes in Europe respond to new social risks such as increasing income insecurity of lone-parent families? This research examines the redesign of social policies to respond to the new risk structures by focusing on the situation of lone parents in Netherlands as an empirical terrain to address the question of stability or change of continental welfare states.

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