Single parents

latest single parents news and features

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  Number of single-parent families increasing by 20,000 a year; 1 million children have no...

  Jun 11th, 2013

  The Centre for Social Justice claims that more than a million children in the UK have no contact...

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  January Jones says single parenting is a joy

  Mar 1st, 2013

  Mad Men star January Jones has hit out at critics of single parenting and said that it is a 'joy'.

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  Mother's day for single mums - why it's not all hearts and flowers

  I currently feel as though I am under a targeted, relentless and somewhat personal attack by the...

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  The Semi-Detached Parent: The end of the road

  Dec 28th, 2012

  It's been two and a half years since I wrote my first single parenting column for Parentdish. The...

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  The Single Parent: Gifts for single parents - er, really?

  Dec 16th, 2012

  My son keeps asking me what I want for Christmas. This is problematic because a) whatever he...

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  Jobless single mum spends £2,500 on her girls' Christmas gifts - saved from her benefits

  Dec 11th, 2012

  This Christmas morning, Zelekah, two, and Zakirah, one, will be waking up to a mammoth delivery...

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  The Single Parent: Government launches a Sorting Out Separation app

  Dec 7th, 2012

  So there really IS an app for everything these days. Including separation.

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  Mum admits £29,500 in benefit fraud

  Dec 4th, 2012

  A dishonest mum-of-three has been given a suspended jail sentence after admitting 11 offences of...

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  The Single Parent: Where I neglect my child...

  Nov 28th, 2012

  Being nine, my son does not like me interfering too much in his ablutions.

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