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702 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (2022)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0702 and id is 1 raw text is: Single-Parent Families and Public Policy in High-Income Countries: Introduction to the Volume By JANET C. GORNICK, LAURIE C. MALDONADO, and AMANDA SHEELY Keywords: single-parent families; U.S. policy; high- income countries; economic well-being; lesson drawing Why Should We Care about Single-Parent Families? For the last 100 years, single-parent families in the United States have captured the attention of policy-makers, political actors, and social reformers. Although the national discourse has shifted over time, one theme has been con- stant: the absence of the second parent, nearly always the father, places single-parent families at risk of economic insecurity and material Janet C. Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Stone Center, and James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Distinguished Chair in Socio- Economic Inequality, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Most of her research is com- parative and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on gender disparities in the labor market and/or on income inequality. She is co-author or co- editor of four books: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003), Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (Verso Press, 2009), and Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries (Stanford University Press, 2013) and Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Laurie C. Maldon ado is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Molloy University and Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work. Her work on single- parent families, poverty, and social policy has been published in Community, Work, and Family, Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, and Handbook of Family Policy. She has co-edited a book on single-parent families in cross- national contexts, The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to improve Wellbeing (Bristol Press, 2018). Correspondence: jgornick@gc.cuny.edu DOI: 10.1177/00027162221133250 ANNALS, AAPSS, 702, July 2022 8