We hear hundreds of stories from single parents each year. Read some of these stories here, using our topic filter to help you find stories that are relevant to you.
Natalie is one of the claimants for our #FixTheCMS legal challenge. Natalie is a single parent and former journalist who has used CMS for her two sons since 2015. She started off getting regular payment...
“Sorry, we can’t help you.”
As single parents with abusive ex-partners, this is something we hear again and again. They try every trick in the book – under-declaring their income, dissolving their businesses, hiding assets and...
To mark Election Week, we’ve asked single parents to share their experiences of our key proposal policy areas. Our final blog has been written by Victoria, a 38 year-old charity worker based in Manchester and...
Lizzie, mum of twins, talks about her struggles accessing accurate and regular child maintenance, but it’s her children who end up losing out.
A few months into single motherhood, I cracked a semi-joke about preferring the term...
I was 27 when I met my son’s father. We were together for five years. I knew he had three other children, but his excuses were pretty good about not seeing them. Now I have...
I am writing this whilst perched on the toilet seat with my six-year-old son in the bath. Multitasking is something all parents become accustomed to, and none more so than those doing it alone.
I gave...
I have been a single parent for almost eight years and divorced for just over six and a half. I live alone with my daughter and I work full-time in local government. During our spare...
Child maintenance
One single parent discusses her struggles in trying to receive child maintenance from a former partner who moved abroad.
My ex-husband stopped all maintenance and child support payments out of the blue on 1 January...
Cuts to benefits and tax credits. Changes to the rules on what kinds support are available to help single parents. Charges to access the future statutory child maintenance system. It’s not been an easy ride...
Nikki is 44 and a single parent to her 15 year old son and twin girls aged nine. They live in the South West of England with their dog, Sidney. When her marriage broke up...
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