Female-headed families and economic policy / Sara S. McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, and Theodora Ooms -- Special problems of mourning in low-income single-parent families / Richard H. Fulmer -- The assessment of social networks in Black, low-income single-parent families / Marion Lindblad-Goldberg -- Dysfunctional arrangements in divorcing families / Marla Beth Isaacs -- Adolescent single-parent families / Jay Ann Jemail and Madelaine Nathanson -- Teenage pregnancy and the Puerto Rican family / Manuel J. Gutierrez -- Coping with the young handicapped child in the single-parent family / C. Wayne Jones -- Father-custody families / Richard A. Warshak.