Single parents 'must find work'
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Single parents should be expected to find work once their child turns 12, a welfare reform report says.
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Pension rules need to be changed to help women avoid poverty in old age as a mix of low pay and time out for childcare is limiting their retirement savings, the TUC says.
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Proposals that people should seek work as part of tenancy agreements derided by MPs
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Though the number of welfare recipients continues to decline, poverty rates -- particularly for single mothers and children -- have surged in recent years.
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The break-up of co-habiting couples is causing severe social problems, a report for the Tories warns.
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More than a quarter of all working families in the United States, including 20 million children, are considered low-income or poor, an independent report said yesterday.
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Children are entitled to a childhood and parents need help to realise this right, the Conservatives say.
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Is the state trying to take over the role of the parent asks  the BBC's Mike Baker?
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Gov. George Pataki will unveil a plan aimed at using tax credits to motivate low-income fathers to work and pay child support.
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Parents of children of all ages should be able to ask their employers for flexible working, says David Cameron.
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Single parents should be paid to stay at home and look after their children, says Scotland's children's tsar.
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THERE WAS a time when purchasing a home was something only married couples did. However, increasingly, single, widowed, and divorced women with and without children are making the choice to purchase a home on their own. Yet, the economic and social consequences of subprime lending practices on them are subjects few are discussing.
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The long-term jobless should try harder to find work or face having their benefits cut, a minister will say.
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Comment is free: John Harris: The government needs to look past middle England and address the harsh realities of an increasingly casualised workforce.
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Report warns that housebuilding targets for England must be increased or a whole generation may be unable to get a foot on the property ladder.
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Britain is at risk of producing a new generation of latchkey kids because parents of older children are struggling to find suitable care for them, a report warns today.
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Absent parents who fail to make child  maintenance payments could find themselves on a name and shame  Web site as part of the UK government&#39;s plans to shake up the  Child Support Agency (CSA).