Services to the Child in the Single Parent Family


 

Publication Date: June 1979

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Samuel Lerner

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Demography; Family; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author suggests that traditional services offered by Jewish family services agencies do not provide enough assistance for the specific needs of single-parent families. While he favors retaining all traditional services offered, the author suggests adding a number of new programs to correct this imbalance, including day-care centers, financial assistance, vocational training, homemaker services, use of Big Brothers/Big Sisters programs, and even employing shadchonim, matchmakers.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.55 no.4, Summer 1979.