世界银行：拉丁美洲和加勒比地区独自抚养孩子：强大的母亲和薄弱的社会援助（英文版）

Studies across countries find that single-mother households are socioeconomically disadvantaged. However, the heterogeneity of these households is regularly overlooked in the literature, with lone-mother households (with only one female adult) frequently undifferentiated from households in which a single mother lives with other adults. Using the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper examines lone-mother households across 15 countries, focusing on the prevalen