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"Single Mothers and Their Children:
A New American Dilemma.'
The Urban Institute Press, 2100 M St. N.N, Washington, D.C. 20037. 198 pp. $24.95.
Authors: Irwin Garfinkel and Sara S. Mchahan
In the United States, the number of single- parent households is increasing at an alarming rate.
Between 1960 and 1983, the proportion of all American children growing up in fe- male-headed households increased from
8.2 to 20.5 percent. Today, 51 percent of b...