SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES - A BOOKSHELF

The purpose of this single parent families bookshelf is to provide pot ential users with a sampling of recent books that deal with various as pects of single parenting. Books are focused on the time period of 198 0 to 1993. Resources include primarily North American and Canadian ent ries. The titles are presented in the following categories: children a nd one-parent families, cross-cultural references, divorced single par ents, ethnicity and single parent families, frameworks for examining s ingle parent families, never-married biological teen mother headed fam ilies, practical guides to single parent family living, single fathers with custody following separation and divorce, and special issues of journals focused on single parent families.