The increase in single parenthood goes hand in hand with increased insecurity for many women raising their children alone. For them, occupying the position of ‘heads of family’ is all the more difficult because they have not generally been prepared for it, and because economic precariousness is combined with interpersonal isolation and psychological fragility. This raises the question of the place of women in democracy, maternity and feminine, and their link to paternity, for individual psychisms. It requires the design of support that is not only economic, but that integrates the social and psychological dimensions. In this book, the authors articulate sociology and psychanalysis to reflect the complexity of this social problem, but above all, they explore possible ways of ensuring that these women heads of family are better taken care of by social stakeholders.