Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them
heavily reliant on government transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced�…

Many single-parent households in Australia rely heavily on both social security payments
and child support. From 1 July 2006 to 1 July 2008, sweeping reforms saw significant�…

Policy towards single mothers is a major issue in welfare reform for both New Zealand and
the USA. These two countries have the highest proportion of single mother families in the�…

The risk of poverty for single mothers ranges from less than 2% in Sweden to more than 35%
in the United States; less extreme cross-national variations also exist for partnered mothers�…

In recent years, significant policy changes have been made to Australian welfare benefits for
single parent families. These changes include the addition of work requirements and�…

The economic vulnerability of children in lone-parent families has drawn attention to child
support policy. After 13 years of constant policy changes the child support system remains�…

In this article, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the
welfare system in Australia. Using childless single women as a control group, we find the�…

This paper assesses the contribution that child support makes to Australian lone mothers'
income packages and the proportion lifted out of poverty as a result. Using the Household�…

This report examines how the economic circumstances of single mothers changed after
welfare reform. The primary author, Dr. June O'Neill, found that the poverty rate for single�…

Two-parent families with dependent children are known to be at lower risk of poverty and
significantly less reliant on state financial help than lone-parent households. It might�…