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• Their broken promise (Sold only by the author, 1918), by Rose Kiss Vargo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Road to Understanding (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How and Why Lisa's Dad Got to Be Famous (c2006), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)

• A Little Norsk: or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892), by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century Co., 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century, 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel according to St. Mark. (London, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Angelica, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Untempered Wind, by Joanna E. Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ylämaan leski: Kuvaus Skotlannin tuntureilta (in Finnish), by Walter Scott, trans. by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)
• These are my children (Macaulay, 1935), by Antoinette Spitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stella Dallas : a novel (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1923], 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Jennie Gerhardt; a novel (H. Liveright, 1926), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruth (H. Frowde :, 1906), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esther Waters : a novel (Duffield, 1913), by George Moore and Frank Hazenplug (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lummox, by Fannie Hurst (Gutenberg ebook)
• Neiti Liwin : Romaani (in Finnish), by Marika Stiernstedt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fröken Liwin (in Swedish), by Marika Stiernstedt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cenizas (in Spanish), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Miguel Domenge Mir (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story, by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde (Gutenberg ebook)

• Clara Hopgood, by William Hale White (Gutenberg text)
• Esther Waters (H. S. Stone and company, 1899), by George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Isabelle (in French), by André Gide (Gutenberg text)

• A Jew's Christian : being a story of life and love, with side lights on the modern hypocrite (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1904), by Trafford Sharron and J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Single parent adoption. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau], 1981), by National Adoption Information Exchange System (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing in metropolitan areas : single-parent families. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1994), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• Project self-sufficiency : an interim report on progress and performance (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1988), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impact of CETA eligibility criteria on single heads of households (National Commission for Employment Policy, 1979), by Isabel V. Sawhill, John Patrick Grace, and United States. National Commission for Employment Policy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Is welfare reform succeeding? (Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, ILR School, 1998), by John Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing characteristics of one-parent households, 1989 (United States Government Printing Office, 1992), by Timothy S. Grall, Myra A. Washington, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research, and United States. Bureau of the Census. Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing characteristics of one-parent households, 1989 (United States Government Printing Office, 1992), by Timothy S. Grall, Myra A. Washington, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research, and United States. Bureau of the Census. Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Partners in self-sufficiency guidebook. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1988), by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Time use patterns and satisfaction with life of single-parent families with special emphasis on the female, low income and/or minority family-head (Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1986), by Karen Chia-Yu Liu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Housing of single-parent families. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1992), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• New directions in child support : child support assurance : hearing before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session ... August 3, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children (page images at HathiTrust)

• Encouraging responsible fatherhood : hearing before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, on examining inititatives to encourage responsible fatherhood, May 23, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children and Families (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Mother-only families : low earnings will keep many children in poverty (The Office, 1991), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case for Father Custody (c1999), by Daniel Amneus (PDF at American Fathers)

• The furniture people (George W. Jacobs & Co., 1903), by Hope Daring (page images at HathiTrust)

• Young unwed fathers : research review, policy dilemmas, and options : summary report (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1988), by Jacqueline Smollar, Theodora Ooms, Inc Maximus, and United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatherhood : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, April 27, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O., 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatherhood : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, April 27, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O., 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mothers on their own. (Harper, 1953), by Elbrun Rochford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century, 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

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