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46 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 73 (2019)
Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers

handle is hein.journals/jrlsasw46 and id is 73 raw text is: Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers Kaycee L. Bills Stacia Michelle West Jami Hargrove University of Tennessee As the affordable housing shortage proliferates, more American house- holds struggle with high housing cost burdens. Grounded in Belsky's (1984) parenting stress framework, we use a weighted low-income sample from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mothers who rent their homes (N = 388) to investigate a relationship between housing cost burden, or paying a substantial portion of income toward housing, and higher rates of reported maternal stress. Findings of the linear regression indicate that younger mothers and those paying 30% or more of their income each month toward rent have higher reported maternal stress scores. These findings are discussed with attention to practice and policy implications. Keywords: maternal stress, housing cost burden, poverty This article employs Belsky's (1984) process model of deter- minants of parenting to consider the potential inclusion of hous- ing cost burden as a correlate of maternal stress. The process model has been commonly used in the exploration of maternal stress (Cardoso, Padilla, & Sampson, 2010), and includes three domains: parental factors, the child's contribution, and contex- tual factors. In the following section, we briefly contextualize the lives of mothers and discuss the current literature examining maternal and child-related contributors to maternal stress. Our Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare • March 2019 • Volume XLVI • Number 1

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