{"id":1208,"date":"2009-02-09T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/mag\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:58:05","slug":"single-parents-face-tougher-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/single-parents-face-tougher-times-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Single parents face tougher times ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">According to parent charity Gingerbread, single parents are fighting a hardening of attitudes towards themselves as well as harsher living conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">The charity recently relaunched after a merger with the One Parent Families Council, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">with a stronger, campaigning voice to make sure that single parents and their children get the fair treatment they deserve. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">In November and December 2008, Gingerbread conducted a nationwide survey of more than 755 single mums and dads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">A single parent now heads one in four families. Findings showed that 84 per cent unsurprising thought that the media presented them in a negative light, 79 per cent turned the heating down to help manage finances, and only one in three received child maintenance from their child\u2019s other parent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">The situation is set to get even grimmer as the Government may soon make single parents with children aged three and upwards prepare for work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Chief Executive Fiona Weir said: \u201cSingle parents tell us they are sick of being treated as second rate families. Most do a good job of bringing up children mainly on their own and want respect not blame. They are struggling to stay afloat as the recession takes hold, with half the children in single parent families already growing up in poverty. Relaunched as Gingerbread we are determined to give single parents the support they need, and a stronger campaigning voice against the poverty and prejudice they face.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbread.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.gingerbread.org.uk<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 According to parent charity Gingerbread, single parents are fighting a hardening of attitudes towards themselves as well as harsher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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