Single Parents in 2023
Posted 21 March 2023
We designed this research to provide an up-to-date picture of what it means to be a single parent in the UK in 2023, and to see what has changed since we produced our last report...
Published on 20 September 2018
In the UK:
i. ONS (2017) Families and households, 2017. Table 1.
ii. Gingerbread analysis of Labour Force Survey (April-June 2018).
iii. See ii.
iv. See ii.
v. See ii.
vi. ONS (2013) Census 2011, Table DC1201EW.
vii. Gingerbread analysis of Understanding Society Wave 4 (data largely from 2012-2013).
i. ONS (2017) Families and households, 2017. Table 1.
ii. See Gingerbread, One in four: a profile of single parents in the UK (2018)
iii. See i, Table 3.
iv. See iii.
v. ONS (2013) Census 2011, Table 1301EW.
vi. Skew, A., et al. (2008) Leaving lone parenthood: Analysis of the repartnering patterns of lone mothers in the UK.
i. Crawford, C. et al (2013) Cohabitation, marriage, relationship stability and child outcomes: Final report. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies.
ii. Harkness, S. (2014) ‘Time to shift the policy spotlight off single parents’. Society Central.
iii. LSE Enterprise (2017) Children’s wellbeing and development outcomes for ages 5, 7 and 11, and their predictors
iv. Rabindrakumar, S. (2017) Family portrait: single parent families and transition over time
v. Rabindrakumar, S. (2015) Challenging the costs of relationship breakdown. London: Gingerbread.
i. ONS (2017) Families and households, 2017. Table 1.
ii. Gingerbread analysis of Labour Force Survey (April-June 2018).
iii. See reference i.
iv. See reference i.
Statistics last updated February 2019