20世纪60年代以来美国女性单亲家庭变迁初探

20世纪60年代以来，美国女性单亲家庭数量骤增，引发大规模道德批判风潮，政治倾向日渐保守，政府福利政策随之紧缩。综观其发展历程可知，两性经济格局的变更，婚姻与性观念的嬗变，单身母亲自有的婚育价值观，政府公共政策的双重作用，合力推动了美国女性单亲家庭的群体扩张。就所占比重和贫困程度而言，黑人女性单亲家庭是尤其值得关注的群体。对以母子为基本关系单位的家庭模式的认可度，以及黑人社区中适婚男性数量上的匮乏，是美国黑人家庭中女性单亲家庭比重较大的特定因素。

The Changes of Mother-Only Families in the United States since the 1960s

The changes in family patterns are an important driving force and perspective of social development.The surge in the number of mother-only families since the 1960s has triggered a large-scale wave of moral criticism,increasingly conservative political atmosphere and tight welfare policies.Changes in the economic position of gender,together with the evolution of marriage and sexual ideas,single mothers'own point of views on the value of marriage and fertility,and the dual role of government public policy,hav...