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All aim to help single-parents juggle multiple responsibilities.
Mother's Day brings college degree for some single moms 2010
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He joins a single-parents group to meet women who, he figures, are desperate for the sensitive, child-loving man he pretends to be.
The Won't-Grow-Up Modern Male Kay S. Hymowitz 2011
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People use labels as a form of mental shorthand, for example, the disabled, the homeless, single-parents, and so on.
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"My wife and I sometimes look at each other and think, it's hard enough for us to raise our kids, how do single-parents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds do it?" he says.
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The centrality of the family unit, based on marriage, the negative effect of current taxation policies, which favour the break-up of families as benefits go to single-parents, the increasingly uncomfortable pressure being placed on Catholic projects which receive public funds, all got due discussion and analysis.
Archive 2008-10-01 Joanna Bogle 2008
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According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, there are over four million single-parents and their related children living below the poverty line in 2005.
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- Be aware of the vulnerable within your neighbourhood, for instance children, the disabled, single-parents, the elderly and the sick and reach out to support them.
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Naturally you'll invite any opposite gender single-parents you know, as well as same-gender single parents and married parents.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rachel Greenwald 2011
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On the one hand the feminist-influenced courts have ruled the mother is the primary caregiver and the media and culture has told us men are largely irrelevant and single-parents families are absolutely fine.
Winnipeg Sun 2009
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Subsidies are still being given to 30,000 families which include widows, persons with disability and single-parents.
MaltaMedia.com 2008
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