The UK government’s expansion of free childcare hours has left many feeling hopeful, yet critics are voicing concerns that ...

It means single parents like Gowland are more likely to need benefits to prop up their income ... But for now, government support is so limited that food bank Thursdays are a part of her life. 3.8 ...

The child poverty strategy promises to consider ways to boost people's incomes, but there are fears this will focus on ...

Single parents have complained the system is ‘unfair ... statement that child benefit rates would rise across the UK from April, in line with CPI. This will bring the rate for the eldest ...

The poverty rate for single-parent households surveyed in 2021 decreased by 3.8 percentage points from the previous survey in 2018 to 44.5 percent, but it remains high.

Being or becoming a lone parent while their children are young more than doubles the chances of a person experiencing poverty ... have the strength for it’: single mothers are being told ...

Such children are also more at risk of poverty ... babies of single mothers is seven times higher than among babies of married women. The analysis found that young people in single parent families ...

Promoted cards do not include input from individual authors. For single parents, these responsibilities compound. If you're a single parent, you're certainly not alone: There were an estimated 9.8 ...

Australia’s child support system can not only increase women’s poverty, but can actually ... a staggering $1.7 billion is owed to a third of single-parent households, representing 475,000 ...

A problem student's parents blame the teacher for their child's poor performance and refusal ... The teacher wrote that the student "has not completed a single assignment" and has withdrawn ...