Lower income families living ‘nightmare’ due to inflation, say groups
People ‘scraping by with little electricity’ as inflation reaches 22-year high in March
Thinking Anew – On the outside looking in
Being on the margins we learn many things otherwise hidden from us
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
Fathers’ say: Here’s what I know about being a Dad...
Eight different kinds of dad on how their experience of fatherhood has changed them
During the lockdown, contact with my six-year-old daughter has stopped
Children’s contact with both parents should continue as before where possible
Covid-19 and care homes: Six key questions
Some families say they were refused information by nursing homes about outbreaks
Agencies rally behind parents on the domestic frontline
Lone parents, new mothers, children at risk, or families in financial trouble can consult helplines and websites for support in tough times
Families fleeing domestic violence leave refuge over Covid-19 concerns
Council properties awaiting refurbishment used to house families in need
More than 50,000 applications have been made for new pandemic payment
Fear growing among poorest working families they will be hardest hit
Current family law court facilities ‘archaic’, says campaign group
Courting Disaster calling on Government to fund a dedicated court in Dublin city centre
New national childcare scheme: 11 essential points you need to know
New system launches on Wednesday but low-income families on existing programmes will be allowed to remain on them indefinitely
How can new fathers combat the loneliness of childcare?
Mothers have established support groups but for dads, it is not always that easy
Minister open to idea of separate agency for child support payments
Doherty unhappy with current situation whereby courts rule on relatively small sums
‘We went to court arguing over €30’
State needs to step in with guidance and support on maintenance, says lone parents’ organisation
Alliance calls for end to child poverty in pre-budget submission
Children’s Rights Alliance proposes daily hot meals, free school books and hobby subsidy
Crested uniforms, iPads and ‘amenity fees’: The true cost of free schooling
Sandra calculates that back to school costs for her daughter will come to €1,367 this summer
Call for lone-parent families to be prioritised for housing
Pre-budget submission argues problem must be tackled as ‘these families among worst off’
Doherty rejects call for role specifically tackling child poverty
Minister says her conscience and those of colleagues ‘should be enough of a driver’
Cabinet to consider new report on outsourcing of smear tests
First payments to women affected by CervicalCheck scandal promised within weeks
Separating parents need to look after themselves, as well as their children
For many, separation can be a devastating experience. Here are seven ways to move on
Budget the acid test for how ‘lone parents treated’
‘Lone parents are in crisis . . . a rental and housing crisis,’ claim advocacy groups
Gardaí accused of using speaker to shout ‘good evening scumbags’ at drug users
Families report feelings that their grief was ‘disenfranchised’ after drug-related deaths
Getting into or staying in the workplace can be precarious for a lone parent
Securing a part-time job has allowed a Dublin mother to transform her life at home both financially and psychologically
Lone parents speak out: 'Mothers have had such an ordeal'
Single parents hopeful shift in opinion evidenced by Yes vote will bring positive change
Adoption controversy: ‘The nun said to me, kiss him goodbye now, and she just whipped him away’
Misleading information made it almost impossible for people to find each other following an adoption
Reasons to vote No in the abortion referendum
Breda O’Brien: Having to travel dissuades many, and virtually none regret their living child
‘I used to think she looked like a model as she strode up to school’
Those who knew Ana Kriegel paint a picture of a beautiful, lively and much-loved girl
Family forced to cancel holiday blame Ryanair for directing them to wrong queue
Pricewatch: Family say they were told to buy new tickets after making complaint
Together for Yes campaign says it is on course to raise €500,000
Group in favour of repealing eighth amendment will put up posters this week
Repeal campaigners to focus on ‘care, compassion, change’
Abortion vote: Together4Yes launches campaign to remove the Eighth Amendment
Housing movement like anti-water charges campaign urged
Policy appears to be ‘solutions’ that are most profitable for private sector, conference told
Landlord exploiting loophole to evict families from Cork apartment block -TD
Claim block was forced to close for refurbishment work does not stand up, says councillor
Xbox One X: Microsoft’s latest weapon in the console wars
It’s designed to do battle with Sony’s Playstation, but it comes with a hefty price tag
Exhausted? Inefficient? Distant? Parental burnout is inevitable
Most parents, not just mothers, become distressed and exhausted at some stage
Single mother, 1970s: ‘This generation can’t comprehend it’
Three Irish mothers, aged from 20s to 70s, describe how single parenting has changed
Single fathers: “You might be a lone parent, but nobody parents alone”
Four fathers who ended up going it alone share their very different experiences
Seafaring families with lost loved ones feel Rescue 116 pain
Sea has yet to give up bodies from ‘Pere Charles’ and ‘Carrickatine’
Obituary: Sherie de Burgh
Empathetic, skilful counsellor who stayed calm amid storm over crisis pregnancies
Co-parenting: how to change it from ‘battle of wills’ to shared job
Survey highlights emotional and social barriers adults encounter in trying to raise children after separation
A Christmas where mummy and daddy don't argue is top of children’s wish list
‘It can be lonely for the mammy and the daddy who doesn’t have the children on Christmas Day,’ says Rita O’Reilly, manager of Parentline
Budget 2017: Social welfare payments to rise €5 from next March
Christmas bonus to rise from 75% of weekly payment last year to 85% this Christmas
Non-custodial parents told child payments can stop
Yet Department of Social Protection tells custodial parents to seek maintenance
Should you instinctively know how to be a parent?
What is it about having a baby that’s so hard? And why don’t people ask for help?
Stories of abuse: ‘You must have said something to set me off’
Men sometimes say something like ‘those breasts are for me, they are not for the baby’
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