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The Rise of Lone-Parent Families - Challenging the Norm

Dudová, Radka. 2009. „The Rise of Lone-Parent Families - Challenging the Norm“. Pp. 135-170 in Hašková, Hana, Zuzana Uhde (eds.). Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.. 245 s. ISBN 978-80-7330-150-7.

The position of Czech institutions towards lone-parenthood changed substantially over the course of last half of the 20th century. The main changes that did take place were at the level of public and professional discourse and at the level of social policies. The chapter describes those changes and analyses the main difficulties that one-parent families in Czech Republic faced during this period.

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