ISBN:
9780415812702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (299 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals
Parallel Title:
Print version Having To (Routledge Revivals)
DDC:
306.8/56/0941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
First published in 1985, Having To summarises the situation of more than a million parents in the UK alone that survive as single parents. This thought-provoking book is based on interviews with more than 200 women and men of all ages and backgrounds. The accounts of what life can be like in the world of one parent families are revealing, sometimes disturbing, and above all, moving. In this book, parents talk in depth about their experiences when confronted by violence, infidelity, lesbianism, child abuse and paranoia. They portray stories that will provoke many questions about the s
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction: Cages; - The unnatural family?; - It doesn't matter what you do, it's wrong; - The living dead; - I'll still be only 32 when the kid's grown up; Part One: Influences; 2. Violence; - I don't know why I kept going back; - A terrible blackness; - Even a bad husband is better than no husband; 3. Infidelity; - Mummy, why is daddy sleeping with Kathleen?; - Q. Have you finally come to your senses? A. I've just left them; - Goodbye to Jane; 4. Abandoned Women
Description / Table of Contents:
- Once bitten ...?- A case of having to; - He never says Natasha, always 'my Natasha'; 5. Transformations; - Personal things; - Born again; - On quicksand; - Breaking the pattern; 6. Schoolgirl Mothers; - Experiences with my father; - Miss World; - I didn't think of all the consequences; Summary of Part One; Part Two: Consequences; 7. Positive Dimensions; - I've never thought that a father was necessarily an important part of the family; - Marriage, a little jailhouse; - Still fighting; 8. Poverty and Isolation; - Deeper and deeper; - Down to 91p; - A bag of fungus; - Crying; 9. Children
Description / Table of Contents:
- A handful- Rentboy; - She's uncontrollable; 10. Men Alone; - You must have some guts; - Boys cry; - Nothing like being a mother; Summary of Part Two; 11. Conclusion: Captive Freedom; - On the margins; - Liberated but caught; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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