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Make your single mother’s day this year
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21 March 2009
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Mother’s Day – the only day of the year when children are under strict orders to pay respect to their Mums. And so they should.
The majority of single parents surveyed this year by Gingerbread. – the charity for lone parents – said they have had to “go without something to make ends meet” for their family. While 83 per cent said that it was harder to make ends meet this year than last.*
And it looks like the love is returned too. The children of single parents on low incomes do worry about money and the stigma of their friends seeing them as “poor”. However, many mentioned, how much they enjoyed spending time together as a family while their Mum was at home. **
Despite the big love tends to flow between single mothers and their children, the majority of single parents feel misrepresented in the wider world. 83 per cent of single parents surveyed told Gingerbread that they thought the press presented single parents in a negative light.
Fiona Weir, Chief Executive of Gingerbread said: “Single mothers often get a bad press. But the vast majority of lone parents do a remarkable job in keeping their families afloat, often with little money in their pockets and no time to spare. They are their children’s’ economists and book balancers, costume makers and cooks, taxi drivers, and dish washers. And that’s before they even get to work…..Today’s the day to celebrate your single mum. Don’t spare the love.”
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* Gingerbread’s online survey of single parents, Februrary 2009.
**Work and well-being over time: lone mothers and their children, 2008
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