Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity O'Neil Mary Kay
Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity O'Neil Mary Kay 'The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children. The women's stories are told in their own words and are used to…
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Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity O'Neil Mary Kay
'The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children. The women's stories are told in their own words and are used to explore the importance of education as a way to improve their and their children's lives. If they are not educated, if they are not healthy, if they are not empowered, the children are the ones who suffer.' (UNICEF report, 2006) The study this book is based upon was of a pioneering facilitating programme enabling low-income mothers with little to no outside support to attend college or university.
Balsam, FRCPsych (London), MRCP (Edinburgh), Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School. The book begins with an engaging Foreword from Rosemary H. Followed by the author's introduction, the book is then split into three parts.
Part I sets the background of the study itself and of Western societal attitudes towards single mothers over