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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Poverty Versus "Purse Power": The Political Economy of the Mother-Child Family III -- 3 An Etic Model for the Scientific Study of the Causes of Matrifocality -- 4 A Way Out of No Way: Female-Headed Households in Jamaica Reconsidered -- 5 Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curaçao -- 6 Some Conceptual Issues: Female Single-Parent Families in the United States -- 7 Similarities and Differences: Female-Headed Households in Brazil and Colombia -- 8 An Ignored Population: Female-Headed Households Among Refugees in Africa -- 9 Women-Headed Households from the Perspective of an Egyptian Village -- 10 Female-Headed, Female-Supported Households in India: Who Are They and What Are Their Survival Strategies? -- 11 Female-Headed Households in Rural Bangladesh: A Survey -- 12 Defining and Targeting Female-Headed Households for Development Assistance in South Asia -- 13 Policy Planning for Single Female-Headed Families: What Is Needed in the United States -- 14 Conclusion: Pulling It All Together -- About the Contributors.