In Defense of Single-Parent Families Patricia Moynagh Stakeholders may fulfil their obligations

Stakeholders may fulfil their obligations and use the language of service user involvement while traditional attitudes and practice remain unchanged

and to be surprised again

When members of a school community deliver together what really matters for their children

a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans

Duplicity in the norms and recognition

In Defense of Single-Parent Families Patricia Moynagh Stakeholders may fulfil their obligationsSingle parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies.