Hope, Steven; Power, Chris; Rodgers, Bryan - In: Social Science & Medicine 49 (1999) 12, pp. 1637-1649
Lone mothers have been shown to have higher levels of psychological distress than married mothers, but it is not clear how this difference arises. Using data from the 1958 British birth cohort followed to age 33, we investigated alternative explanations for the excess distress of lone mothers....