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"One of the hardest things about being on your own with childen is the lack of back-up and emotional support. I found myself constantly questioning my parenting abilities and getting down about the  single-parent prejudice in the media. Gingerbread reminds us we aren't  alone and we are proper families too!"

Catherine Johnson

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Lone parent employment has climbed steadily in recent years but single parents are still portrayed as ‘scroungers’. Recent evidence has confirmed that most children growing up in single parent families turn out fine but single parents are often depicted as ‘bad mothers’, responsible for ‘broken families’. Single parents want these attitudes to be challenged.

Gingerbread has asked 50 influential politicians and media editors to sign a pledge to tackle prejudice against single parents.

Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron have already signed up.

Please sign, and ask your MP to do the same.

We want to expose when single parents are being stereotyped, and to highlight when single parents are getting a fair deal.

Click on our walls of fame and shame to see the good and the bad – and please send in your own examples to campaign@gingerbread.org.uk

See Martina Cole and Gingerbread’s Director of Policy Kate Bell on GMTV

Listen to Fiona Weir, Gingerbread’s Chief Executive, on BBC Radio 5 live

Professor Pat Thane, representing History & Policy, also spoke on Radio 5 live