Articles Tagged: single mums
Dannii Minogue: Being a mum is more important than my career
Newly-separated mum-of-one Dannii Minogue has said she is putting her son before her career and ruling out a return to music.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Work is the curse...
Last week I spent the best part of an hour on the phone to the Inland Revenue for them to tell me what I already knew: I am not entitled to any working tax credits, or the childcare element of them.
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Universal credit: Why 150,000 single working mums will be worse off
The charity Save the Children says that 150,000 of the country’s poorest single parents will be worse off by up to £68 a week under the Coalition Government’s new Universal Credit. This may mean that a quarter of a million children will be pushed further into poverty.
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Celebrity mums Kym Marsh and Karren Brady join the fight to stop working single mums losing up to £68 a week in benefits
Single mothers could lose up to £68 a week in benefits under plans to change the benefits system, according to Save the Children.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: Help, my child bores me
As much as I love my son, I have to admit, he sometimes bores me.
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Teen mum says TV appearance to put her off parenthood made her more broody
A teen mum claims her participation in a TV show designed to put youngsters off becoming young mothes had the complete opposite effect.
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The Semi-Detached Parent: What single parenting has taught me
It's now a full two months since I officially became a single mother. This is what I have learned: That it is bloody hard work and I refuse to believe anyone would do it from choice (I am looking at YOU Miriam Stoppard and speaking in a Firm Voice).
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The Semi-Detached Parent: The realities of holidaying as a single parent
I've been away with my son on my own plenty of times before, and it has always been ace (Mainly. Apart from the time I chronicled here when he wanted to lie on the sofa exercising his thumbs on his DS for a week, whilst I wanted to go walking on the beach in the rain...)
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