It defines a family as a couple with or without children, or a lone parent with at least one child, who live at the same address.
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"I was jobless, a lone parent and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless," she said in her 2008 Harvard commencement speech.
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AROUND 270m people have left China's countryside to work in urban areas, many of them entrusting their children to the care of a lone parent, grandparents, relatives or other guardians.
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More than half of black African and black Caribbean families in the UK are headed by a lone parent, compared to less than a quarter of white families and just over a tenth of Asian families.
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Children in lone-parent families remain more vulnerable to poverty. In 2018, the child poverty rate was 5.8% for those living in couple families, compared with 26.2% for those in female lone-parent families. In 2018, there were 216,000 persons aged 65 years living below the poverty line. The percentage of seniors living in poverty was 1.7 for those living with families, and 7.9% for unattached seniors.
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Knight was born in 1972 in Chester, and grew up in a lone parent family. He attended Chester Catholic High School, and went on to study History at the University of Hull, the first in his family to do so.
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Of these, the poverty rate for children in couple families was 5.8% compared to 26.2% in female lone parent families. The number of children living in poverty in Canada peaked in 2012 at 1 million, representing 15% of the population.
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Unlike the family allowance, provision was made for the rate to be uprated, at the Secretary of State's discretion, each year. By the end of 1978 the rate had been increased to £3/week for each child, with an additional £2/week payable to lone-parent families. In 1979 the Child Tax Allowance was removed, the value of the allowance taken up in higher child benefit payments, now £4/week, plus £2.50/week extra for lone-parent families. Child benefit rates were uprated roughly in line with inflation until 1988, but subsequently was frozen until 1990, in order to curb welfare spending.
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These residents created an average age of 38one year higher than that of the entire state. About 15 percent of residents were single and 13 percent were lone-parent households. With 2,168 housing units at an average density of , the city's populace consisted of 2,540 females and 2,305 males, giving it a gender balance close to national averages with 14.8 percent male and 11.9 percent female. The racial makeup was dominated by white people, with 71 percent of the population. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, Omak had an increase of 10 families to 1,230 and a decrease of 21 lone-parent families.
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Out-of-work benefit payments (such as Jobseeker's Allowance, incapacity, lone parent, disability and carer benefits) in Southcote are higher than the Reading average. 80.2% of Southcote's residence evaluate their health as "good", although this is lower than the Reading average of 85.5%.
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As of the 2006 census, there are 4,894 residents, seventy percent being between 20 and 69. Regarding living arrangements, of the 1370 residents over 55 years old, 275 live alone. Of residents living in families, there are 712 children under the age of 15. Twenty percent are lone parent families.
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Mother with her children. A single parent (also termed lone parent or sole parent) is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of the other biological parent. Historically, single-parent families often resulted from death of a spouse, for instance in childbirth. This term is can be broken down into two types: sole parent and co-parent.
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Statistics Canada reported in 2013 that high-risk groups for poverty in Canada include "people with activity limitations (physical or mental disability), singles (unattached individuals), persons in lone-parent families, people with less than a high school education and minorities who are immigrants." Activist group Canada Without Poverty, referencing Statistics Canada, identifies that 1 in 7 individuals or 4.9 million persons in the nation are experiencing poverty.
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Griffin said that Fiona "doesn't know what she wants". She is "excited" about having a baby but "nervous" about being a lone parent. She does love Steve because he was her "first love, but the fact he's done so many nasty things to her in the past is weighing heavily on her mind." Fiona gives birth five weeks premature and calls the baby Morgan.
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A new higher rate of child benefit, payable for the first child only, was introduced in 1991. This was £1 higher than the rate payable for subsequent children, which was again frozen, at £7.25/week. From 1991 Child Benefit increased in line with inflation, until 1998, when the new Labour government increased the first child rate by more than 20%, and abolished the Lone Parent rate.
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Tap, a shy good girl who finds first love with the charming, boyish Hong. Physically and emotionally, the two are a perfect match, but their backgrounds couldn't be more different. Tap is an elite student destined for greater things, while Hong is a low-income brat sired by a lone parent (Ricky Hui). Though Tap believes that love can conquer all, her strict, yet loving mother isn't quite convinced.
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He was born in the family of Artur- Arnold Frenkiel and his wife Bronisława. His mother brought him up as a lone parent after his father fell victim to the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. In 1937 he completed his schooling at Kraków's Henryk Sienkiewicz Gimnazjum and entered the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in the city. His lecturers included Władysław Jarocki, Kazimierz Sichulski, Xawery Dunikowski and Eugeniusz Eibisch.
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Claimants can receive income support if they are a lone parent and responsible for a child under five who is a member of their household. A claimant is considered responsible for a child in any week if receiving child benefit for the child. However, if a claimant arranges for their child benefit to be paid to someone else, for example, an ex-partner, the claimant will still be treated as receiving the child benefit.
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He met his second love, Polina Suslova, in Paris and lost nearly all his money gambling in Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden. In 1864 his wife Maria and his brother Mikhail died, and Dostoevsky became the lone parent of his stepson Pasha and the sole supporter of his brother's family. The failure of Epoch, the magazine he had founded with Mikhail after the suppression of Vremya, worsened his financial situation, although the continued help of his relatives and friends averted bankruptcy.
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According to the 2011 Census, Etobicoke North has a population of 56,625, an increase of 3.6% between 2006 and 2011. 47% of families are couples with children, while 28% of families are couple without children, and 25% are Lone- parent families. The most common structures of occupied private dwellings are single-detached houses at 39.5%, and Apartment buildings that have 5 or more storeys at 36.1%. The 2011 National Household Survey addressed households, immigration/migration, ethnocultural, education, labour force, and income/shelter factors.
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The links were altered so that the ninth and eighteenth holes were near the new clubhouse, changing Francis' orientation of the course. The 1930s clubhouse was vacated at this time. It was tenanted from 1978 by the Lone Parent Club of Queensland, and through the 1980s operated as a disco venue for single parents known as "The Pink Palace", named for its then brightly-painted facade. It was then abandoned for many years, during which time it was vandalised and inhabited by squatters.
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Cainscross is a suburban town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on the western outskirts of Stroud and forming part of the Stroud urban area. The parish includes the communities of Ebley, Cashes Green and Hamwell Leaze, and part of Dudbridge. The population of the civil parish was 6,680 (in 2001) of which 14.6% are in the 5-14 age group. The area is predominantly white (98.4%) with a high proportion of lone parent households with dependent children in comparison to the Stroud and county averages.
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Those taking qualifications below degree level were exempt as were mature students over the age of 25, lone parents in receipt of a lone parent grant and those in receipt of Disabled Student Allowance. Students who dropped out of university would also not have to pay as they would be allowed "one false start". Certain courses, such as teacher training courses, were also exempt from the endowment. In the summer of 2007, the Scottish government proposed the Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Bill that would scrap the graduate endowment altogether.
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In Parliament he served on the environment select committee from 1995 until he was made a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury Dawn Primarolo following the 1997 General Election. He resigned as Primarolo's PPS just a few months later in 1997 over lone-parent benefits cuts introduced by the Secretary of State for Social Security Harriet Harman. He served on several select committees and was a member of the administration committee since the 2005 general election. He was the chairman of the all-party groups on AIDS and on refugees.
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Children whose families receive welfare, children whose parents dropped out of school, children of teenage parents, children raised by a lone parent, children raised in crime-ridden inner-city neighbourhoods, children who have multiple young siblings, and children who live in overcrowded substandard apartments are at risk of poor educational achievement in Germany. Often these factors go together, making it very hard for children to overcome the odds. A number of measures have been assessed to help those children reach their full potential.Hans Weiß (Hrsg.): Frühförderung mit Kindern und Familien in Armutslagen.
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It consists of 2605 occupied households, of which 23% are single parent, 53.5% have children in lone parent families, 14.6% are lone pensioners and 18.2% are occupied by single people. Streets in the area are grouped by the first letter into blocks, for example, the 'M Block' would be a gathering of M-Streets. The houses are predominantly social housing, 56.3% with 4.9% privately rented and 33.6% owner occupied. There were according to the last census, 6015 people living in Owton Manor of who 1590 were aged 15 or under, 3635 were aged between 16 and 65 and 890 were over this age.
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On 6 February 1998 in a controversial speech at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) he disparaged the 1997 intake of female Labour MPs as "Stepford Wives…who've had the chip inserted into their brain to keep them on message and who collectively put down women and children in the vote on lone parent benefits" — in the previous month benefits had been reduced for this group of (mainly) women. In the 2001–5 parliament he was the fifth most frequent rebel on the Labour benches in divisions on government motions and the tenth most frequent rebel on motions put forward by his own party.
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The census identified 10.8% of residents aged 16–74 as being in higher managerial, administrative or professional occupations; a further 24.1% were in "lower managerial and professional occupations"; 14.6% of residents were full-time students; and 8.2% had never worked or were long-term unemployed. In comparison to overall numbers for London and England, there is a high proportion of non-pensioner one-person households (25.9% of households) and lone parent households with dependent children (10.7%), compared to national averages (17.9% and 7.1%, respectively). As a residential area, population density of Telegraph Hill (106.3 persons per hectare) is more than twice the average density of London (52 persons per hectare).
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Under Tony Blair New Labour introduced plans to cut lone parent benefit, which would disproportionately harm women. The cut was brought in by Harriet Harman, Secretary of State for Social Security, who championed the cut despite the majority of people affected being women and children who were already poor. Backbench Labour MPs, led by the Campaign Group, opposed these plans, speaking and voting against them in Parliament. Blair ally Patricia Hewitt was alleged to have described the rebellion as a "conspiracy organised by the Socialist Campaign Group" 47 Labour MPs voted against the proposals including Campaign Group members Ken Livingstone, Ronnie Campbell, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Ann Cryer, Alan Simpson, John McDonnell, Dennis Skinner, Audrey Wise, and Diane Abbott.
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He was a member of the Trade and Industry Committee from 1992 to 1997 and again from 2003; in between he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Milburn following the 1997 general election, but he resigned over Harriet Harman's decision to cut lone parent benefits in December of that year. He used to be very loyal to his old boss Arthur Scargill, but later criticised him for being too Stalinist. His voting record shows him to be against many of Tony Blair's policies, including ID cards, student top-up fees and the Iraq war. Clapham announced he would stand down at the next general election; his constituency became part of the new constituency of Penistone and Stocksbridge.
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The Child Benefit Bill was introduced in 1975 by Barbara Castle, based on the child credit element of the rejected previous Heath government's Tax Credit proposal that would have replaced PAYE, integrating tax and benefits. Child benefits introduced for the first time a universal payment, paid for each child, doubling the number of children within its scope. Like the family allowance, which it replaced, the new benefit was not means tested; an attempt by the Callaghan government to introduce this was thwarted in 1976 when cabinet papers were leaked to the Child Poverty Action Group. The rate payable was £1/week for the first and £1.50 for each subsequent child. An addition 50p was payable to lone-parent families.
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Troubled families, according to anecdotal evidence collected by Casey from family interviews, are characterized by inter-generational transmission, large numbers of children, shifting family make-up, dysfunctional relationships and unhelpful family and friends, abuse, institutional care, teenage mothers, early signs of poor behaviour, troubles at school, anti-social behaviour, mental illness (particularly depression, impeding ability to function in life), and drugs & alcohol use. The definitive report, 'National Evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme' found that 49% of those in the program were lone parent families. Underage pregnancy was statistically insignificant, with the under-18 conception rate at 2%. 90% of adults had not been convicted of a criminal offence and 93% of adults had no record of anti-social behaviour. Among children, 88% of children had no record of anti-social behaviour.
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In January 2015, the Ontario Ministry of Education released a report indicating that 84 TDSB elementary schools fell under the ministry’s definition of underutilized (less than 65 per cent capacity), and could potentially be closed. The TDSB, following directives from Ontario Minister of Education Liz Sandals, conducted its own review, refining the list of underutilized elementary schools to 48. ETT reviewed the 48 elementary schools highlighted by the TDSB using the data collected by the board to rank schools by external challenges to students (family income, levels of social assistance, family education, and preponderance of lone parent families). ETT’s report concluded that the majority of the schools being considered for closure fell within the areas of Toronto the TDSB considers to be the poorest and to have the fewest learning opportunities.
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The Blair ministry also extended to three- year-olds the right to a free nursery place for half a day Monday to Friday. Tax credits assisted some 300,000 families (at January 2004) with childcare costs, while the 2004 budget exempted the first £50 of weekly payments to nannies and childminders from tax and National Insurance, restricted to couples earning not more than £43,000 per annum. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 extended a legal right to walk to about 3,200 square miles of open countryside, mainly in the North of England. During its first year in office, the Blair Government made the controversial decision of cutting Lone Parent Benefit, which led to abstentions amongst many Labour MPs. In March 1998, however, Brown responded in his Budget statement by increasing child benefit by £2.50 a week above the rate of inflation, the largest ever increase in the benefit.
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He joined Fine Gael in 2008, and was re-elected as a Fine Gael candidate at the 2009 local elections. He was involved in controversy after taunting the Garda Representative Association's general secretary by issuing the statement: "Mr PJ Stone should put on a uniform and go and do real work and stop rabble-rousing." During Budget debates in December 2012, Keating hit out at what he saw as a "Culture of Dependence" in Ireland, saying: "increased dependency on the State encourages a new lifestyle of welfare economy ... a woman will have a lone parent allowance, children’s allowance, rent subsidy, school grants, a medical card, fuel allowance and special payments from the community welfare officer which come under section 13 of the Social Welfare Act for exceptional payments". Later in December 2012, Keating returned €7,571 of expenses to the Government, following a sample audit of expenses.
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Originally, the FACS was known as the Survey of Low Income Families (SOLIF) which was set up in 1999 as a new survey for Britain’s lone parent families and low-income couples with dependent children. Six annual waves have been completed so far. From the third wave in 2001 onwards, the survey was renamed FACS and was extended to high-income families in order to represent a complete sample of British families.Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), FACS catalogue record entry, retrieved September 22, 2009 Topics covered in the FACS so far have been, for example, health and well-being, behaviour and childcare provision, use of local services, education and training, employment, family income, receipt of benefits and material deprivation. The FACS pursues amongst others the long term objective to eradicate child poverty within a generation within the Government’s Public Service Agreement. Other objectives include the evaluation of the Government’s work incentive measures, to compare living standards of families across Great Britain and across the income distribution, and to observe changes in the above.
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