Article: The sole parent family: family and support networks.

Article: Fed: Living standards to plunge in sole-parent ...
AAP General News (Australia);  August 26, 2005 ;     275 words ... ... General News (Australia) 08-26-2005 Fed: Living standards to plunge in sole-parent families: NATSEM New research shows the living standards of some sole-parent households will fall by almost 20 per cent overnight on their child's sixth ...

Article: Sole-parent families 'hit hard by poverty'
The Press;  March 8, 2002 ;     600 words ... ... using the city mission's food bank service fell into the sole parent category. Of the 998 people who used the city mission ... housing spokesman, Major Campbell Roberts, said single-parent families were under intense pressure owing to ongoing debt, the high ...

Article: Fed: Sole parent households no impact on learning - ...
AAP General News (Australia);  March 18, 2003 ;     363 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: Sole parent households no impact on ... AAP - Children from solo parent families were less likely to have ... Family report found solo parent families did face more financial ... cent of children from solo parent families had learning difficulties ...

Article: Sole-parent ranks boom.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  December 13, 2001 ;     482 words ... ... children taken into care, who become wards of the State, increased from 781 in 1996 to 1105 in 2000. The number of sole-parent families also surged from one-in-five, in 1990, to 92 per cent of all new families created in the 10 years to the ...

Article: Single parent families hard on children: Gully
The Nelson Mail;  October 28, 1999 ;     422 words ... ... his claim about the effectof sole parent families. ``It may not be money ... between a family situationlike a sole parent family'' and achievement by ... two children. The issue of sole parent families came up at other times during ...

Article: Fight for lower sole-parent premiums.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  April 20, 2006 ;     427 words ... ... failed to have it dismissed. Although health funds are required to offer health insurance options for couples and single-parent families, they are not obliged to charge different premiums. Publication Date: 21 April 2006 THE HOSPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS FUND OF ...

Article: Solo-parent families
The Press;  June 19, 2001 ;     329 words ...Sir--Muriel Newman claims (June 5) that a sole-parent household headed by a single woman "is the most dangerous ... me while at various times on the DPB and working as a sole parent. Ms Newman invites investigation and the passing of ...