One Family Ireland – National organisation for one-parent families

Be Part of the Change in 2025
We call on parents from one-parent families across Ireland to help shape a brighter future by joining our Advocacy Group and Media Panel. Together, we can ensure your voices are heard and real change happens.

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Single Parents Day 2025
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INFORMATION & SUPPORT

For listening support and information for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and those separating call the askonefamily helpline on 01 662 9212.

COUNSELLING

Our counselling service for adults and young people ensures time to be really listened to by a professional counsellor.

UNPLANNED PREGNANCY

We provide free, confidential, non-judgemental and HSE approved information, support and counselling on all options during an unplanned pregnancy and post-abortion. Call us on 01 662 9212.

PARENTING

One Family parenting aim to support parents with everyday parenting challenges and the complexity of parenting post separation.

COURSES

We offer courses and workshops for people parenting alone who are looking to access education and work; for parents experiencing challenges and change; and for professional development.

POLICY & ENGAGEMENT

We make policy submissions, undertake research in key areas, and advocate for better lives for one-parent families. In all we do, we are solution-focused.

PRESS RELEASE: Time for a New Chapter on International Single Parents Day

One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has warned the rise in poverty rates in lone-parent families show Government policies designed to tackle poverty are failing. The warning comes as the latest Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2024 confirms a pattern of consistent deprivation in one-parent families, rising to 46.3%. Once again, in 2024, the CSO Survey identified single-adult households with children under 18, as the most impacted families in Ireland.