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A Valentine’s Day guide for single parents
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and the hearts, flowers and cards are everywhere you turn. If you’re a parent and currently single, you might be feeling a little left out from the love-fest. But who needs heart-shaped sweeties anyway?! Here are our top five ways to feel good as a single parent this…
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Tagged gifts, I love You, single parent, Valentine's Day
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Child maintenance pack for single parents
Gingerbread has launched an email advice pack for single parents who are looking for information about child maintenance payments. Child maintenance is an essential form of support for many single parent families, but making arrangements to ensure it gets paid can be complicated and confusing. With the government talking of overhauling the way child maintenance…
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Tagged child, child maintenance, Money matters, News, single parent
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Dealing with stepchildren
When Kate met Mark she couldn’t have been happier. However, his step children made her life a misery … and threatened her relationshipwith their father. She told us what it was like adjusting to life as a step mum and how things are now she has a child of her own. How we got together…
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Tagged Case study, Divorce, Implications of divorce, Parenting, relationship, Sibling rivalry, single parent
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Single mums on Mother’s Day
Judging from these celebrities, who attribute their success in life to their mother, being the product of a single-mum family clearly hasn’t always been disastrous! On Mother’s Day we’d like to shed a positive light on the hard work and devotion that single mums put into their job. Strong and at times she can be very stoic –…
Single parent at Christmas
How to have a great Christmas if you are a single or divorced parent. While for most people they offer relaxation and reprieve from the daily grind, for single and divorced parents, the Christmas holidays can be an anxious time with conflicts, financial worries and custody concerns dominating. It doesn’t have to be like that though. With a…
