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Single mother families is one of the most common and the poorest family type in Lithuania. The literature analysis shows that single mother families' poverty is mostly determined by socio-political conditions. Therefore, the research of the dissertation intended to reveal the reasons that determine the problematics of single mother families in Lithuania and to capture what challenges these families face and what support resources they have. The research has shown that in Lithuanian, in the context of family policy, single mother families are stigmatised and discriminated, they do not receive necessary support and all the system is unappropriated to their needs. Family policies are mostly determined by the dominant conservative, patriarchal, familialistic and religious values. Therefore, the family policy is mainly interested in supporting nuclear and large families and all policy tools are implemented accordingly. In the context of such policy, single mothers and their children face many financial, childcare, education, healthcare, logistic and legislative challenges. While trying to survive in an unfavourable political environment, mothers have to sacrifice many of their own and their children's needs, they experience consumption deprivation and cannot devote as much time to their children as they would like to. Meanwhile, children have to spend a lot of their time alone and to learn to take care of themselves at an early age. The most important source of support to these families is their informal network, which provides them with financial and childcare support. Meanwhile, children's fathers are involved into their lives both socially and financially, as much as they feel close to their children.

Single mother families is one of the most common and the poorest family type in Lithuania. The literature analysis shows that single mother families' poverty is mostly determined by socio-political conditions. Therefore, the research of the dissertation intended to reveal the reasons that determine the problematics of single mother families in Lithuania and to capture what challenges these families face and what support resources they have. The research has shown that in Lithuanian, in the context of family policy, single mother families are stigmatised and discriminated, they do not receive necessary support and all the system is unappropriated to their needs. Family policies are mostly determined by the dominant conservative, patriarchal, familialistic and religious values. Therefore, the family policy is mainly interested in supporting nuclear and large families and all policy tools are implemented accordingly. In the context of such policy, single mothers and their children face many financial, childcare, education, healthcare, logistic and legislative challenges. While trying to survive in an unfavourable political environment, mothers have to sacrifice many of their own and their children's needs, they experience consumption deprivation and cannot devote as much time to their children as they would like to. Meanwhile, children have to spend a lot of their time alone and to learn to take care of themselves at an early age. The most important source of support to these families is their informal network, which provides them with financial and childcare support. Meanwhile, children's fathers are involved into their lives both socially and financially, as much as they feel close to their children.

The main issue analyzed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on the social construction of single mother families and its effect on their wellbeing and life opportunities. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis have been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived and treated in the context of social policy in Lithuania. The main findings of the paper show that in Lithuania, social policy is concentrated on controlling demography and therefore promotes traditional families and multi-child families. Meanwhile, single mother families are rather neglected and are not recognized by family policy as a group of a specific importance.

The main issue analyzed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on the social construction of single mother families and its effect on their wellbeing and life opportunities. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis have been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived and treated in the context of social policy in Lithuania. The main findings of the paper show that in Lithuania, social policy is concentrated on controlling demography and therefore promotes traditional families and multi-child families. Meanwhile, single mother families are rather neglected and are not recognized by family policy as a group of a specific importance.

The main issue analyzed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on the social construction of single mother families and its effect on their wellbeing and life opportunities. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis have been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived and treated in the context of social policy in Lithuania. The main findings of the paper show that in Lithuania, social policy is concentrated on controlling demography and therefore promotes traditional families and multi-child families. Meanwhile, single mother families are rather neglected and are not recognized by family policy as a group of a specific importance.

The main issue analyzed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on the social construction of single mother families and its effect on their wellbeing and life opportunities. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis have been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived and treated in the context of social policy in Lithuania. The main findings of the paper show that in Lithuania, social policy is concentrated on controlling demography and therefore promotes traditional families and multi-child families. Meanwhile, single mother families are rather neglected and are not recognized by family policy as a group of a specific importance.

The main issue analysed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on social construction of single mother families as well as on the wellbeing of single mother's children. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis has been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived in different welfare state regimes and the case of Lithuania is presented. The main findings of the paper show that in the welfare regimes (such as social democratic) where single mother families are seen as equal families to traditional family, policy strikes to provide the children with equal opportunities despite family circumstances, while other regimes (such as post-soviet) concentrate on controlling demography and therefore promote traditional families and children from single mother families are rather neglected. Moreover, all the welfare regimes and their policies fail to recognise the diversity within single mother families and therefore, at the end, children are not set equally

The main issue analysed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on social construction of single mother families as well as on the wellbeing of single mother's children. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis has been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived in different welfare state regimes and the case of Lithuania is presented. The main findings of the paper show that in the welfare regimes (such as social democratic) where single mother families are seen as equal families to traditional family, policy strikes to provide the children with equal opportunities despite family circumstances, while other regimes (such as post-soviet) concentrate on controlling demography and therefore promote traditional families and children from single mother families are rather neglected. Moreover, all the welfare regimes and their policies fail to recognise the diversity within single mother families and therefore, at the end, children are not set equally

The main issue analysed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on social construction of single mother families as well as on the wellbeing of single mother's children. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis has been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived in different welfare state regimes and the case of Lithuania is presented. The main findings of the paper show that in the welfare regimes (such as social democratic) where single mother families are seen as equal families to traditional family, policy strikes to provide the children with equal opportunities despite family circumstances, while other regimes (such as post-soviet) concentrate on controlling demography and therefore promote traditional families and children from single mother families are rather neglected. Moreover, all the welfare regimes and their policies fail to recognise the diversity within single mother families and therefore, at the end, children are not set equally

The main issue analysed in the paper is policy design and its outcome on social construction of single mother families as well as on the wellbeing of single mother's children. Literature review and qualitative legislation documents analysis has been conducted to demonstrate how single mothers are perceived in different welfare state regimes and the case of Lithuania is presented. The main findings of the paper show that in the welfare regimes (such as social democratic) where single mother families are seen as equal families to traditional family, policy strikes to provide the children with equal opportunities despite family circumstances, while other regimes (such as post-soviet) concentrate on controlling demography and therefore promote traditional families and children from single mother families are rather neglected. Moreover, all the welfare regimes and their policies fail to recognise the diversity within single mother families and therefore, at the end, children are not set equally