monoparental families News

For German single and unemployed mothers re-employment programs are not enough. The lack of adequate facilities for early childhood, in fact, is likely to make the substantial government investments for the women employment inclusion useless. So much so that in most cases, the mothers who take care of their children [...]

Being raised up by a single parent is less traumatic than it seemed. At least in Germany. According to a recent enquiry conducted on a sample of 1035 German children aged from 6 to 13, living in a monoparental family is not so problematic. In fact, the kids state that [...]

Germany rushes to help single mothers by strengthening the network of local services. A formula that data in hand, has proved to be far more effective than financial allowances distributed rainfall as in the past . The new federal program will require an investment of € 25 millions - mainly [...]

20% In Belgium, 20% of families are monoparental. In 15 years, the number increased by 30%. The Office National d'Allocations Familiares also announced that, in most cases, they are single women aged between 35 and 44 and often, just because of this situation, they find themselves in a difficult economic situation.

Child poverty in Spain continues to expand. A report just released by the local branch of UNICEF reports that, today, nearly one Spanish child in four live in relative poverty. This figure places the country in the European black list, next to very different realities such as Romania, Bulgaria and [...]

Poverty continues to affect people, in France as well. According to the latest INSEE statistical survey on the families’ living conditions, 13% of them lived under conditions of poverty in 2008. That means that almost 7,8 million French citizens have an income below 950 Euros per month. Since 2005 these [...]

19% 19 per cent of German families are monoparental according to the Federal Statistical Office. Single parenting still seems to be a women's domain. The number of single fathers fell to 10 per cent in 2009  from 13 per cent in 1996.