Lower income families living ‘nightmare’ due to inflation, say groups
People ‘scraping by with little electricity’ as inflation reaches 22-year high in March
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Advocacy groups welcome costs measures but criticise lack of targeting
‘Most vulnerable will continue to suffer’, lone-parent organisation One Family says
Free childcare urged for all one-parent families
Oireachtas hears child poverty caused by ‘structural barriers’ to education and jobs
Man who raped stepdaughter has part of sentence suspended after anger management pledge
The court heard the 32-year-old strangled ex-girlfriend to death in his native country
Hard-hitting report scathing about need to reform Coroners’ Courts system
System ‘decreasingly fit for purpose’ and creating ‘human rights violations’, says study
‘We’d love to offer a service’: Principal keen to reopen school for vulnerable pupils
Some schools say they are willing to reopen if permitted to do so on a voluntary basis
‘I can’t live with the thought of being locked down with him’
Nearly 3,500 women contacted a domestic violence service for the first time during the initial lockdown; is this lockdown any better?
Lone parents who lost work should continue to get PUP, report says
Many families already experience high rates of poverty and have lost access to childcare provided by relatives
Levels of food poverty since pandemic ‘tragic’, single parent body says
‘Before Covid everything had been masked by schools - breakfast clubs, school meals’
Tips on how to make those blended families work
‘If there is conflict and hostility, it is very difficult to make the next parenting role work’
Blended families can benefit adults and children – but it’s not easy
‘I felt it was wonderful that this was my family; that these people are part of my life’
Shared parenting: fathers being forced to go down ‘adversarial route’
Unmarried fathers in Ireland do not have automatic guardianship rights
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