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Posted 27 May 2010
Gingerbread President J K Rowling writes exclusively on stigma, welfare cuts and her experience of being a single parent. Nearly twenty years ago (it’s a shock to me to write that, because it still seems quite...
Posted 3 April 2018
There are 3 of us; in ascending order, E is 8 and lives in an amazing world of his imagination. L is 11 and is a Minecraft Redstone Master, Cris (me) is a computer programmer....Enter ‘Ethan The Explorer’ I remembered the stories I used to make up for the kids about ‘Ethan The Explorer’ and his cousin ‘Clever Chloe the Scientist’ – Chloe invented a time machine, so there were...
Posted 4 October 2017
Steve is 56 and a single dad to his two children, aged four and seven. He lives in South Wales and is self-employed. He describes the difficulties of picking his family back up after his...
Posted 4 October 2017
Steve lives in Birmingham with his (almost) five year old daughter Sam. His partner passed away shortly before their daughter was born by caesarean section. Since then he has raised Sam alone. Steve runs a...
Posted 4 October 2017
Rob lives in London with his seven children aged three to 15. He’s been a single dad for almost two years after separating from his wife. He works full-time as a swimming teacher in a...
Posted 4 October 2017
Writer Garry Johnson discusses his experiences of separation and being a single dad to his sons, Sam and Adam. I live in Basildon in Essex with my two sons in their twenties who both work. It’s...
Posted 4 October 2017
Chris Davies used to be a communications officer for his local county council in Dorset, but that all changed when he saw a job advertised for a web manager at the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust –...
Posted 3 October 2017
Eddie is 50 years old and lives in Worthing with his 13 year old son, Connor. After his wife died suddenly when their son was just a few months old, Eddie had to adapt quickly...
Posted 2 October 2017
Neil is a Gingerbread member and single dad. Here he tells the story of how Gingerbread’s forum helped him find love again. I joined Gingerbread in 2014 after becoming a single parent, and life was pretty tough...
Posted 2 October 2017
Dan is a single dad to his son Carl, who’s nine. Carl has not seen his mum for five years. “Carl’s mum got pregnant two months after we met. We were surprised but he was a...
Posted 2 October 2017
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...
