Press Release | Report Calls on State to Support One-Parent Families: Cites a Decade of Our Work

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Press Release New Report Calls on State to Support One-Parent Families to Escape Poverty  And Cites a Decade of One Family’s Research and Policy Work (Dublin, Friday 16 June 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone and sharing parenting – responds to a report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection […]

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Press Release | Creative Fun at Smithfield Square on 27 May with our Free Family Day Fest

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Press Release Creative Family Fun at Smithfield Square Annual Family Day Festival celebrates family diversity in Ireland today. Family Day Festival | Saturday 27 May 2017 | www.familyday.ie (Dublin, Monday 8th May 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating – celebrates the wonderful diversity of families in Ireland […]

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Press Release | Census 2016 Reflects the Real Diversity of Families in Today’s Modern Ireland

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Press Release Census 2016 Shows Increase in One-Parent Family Households and in People who are Divorced Reflecting the Real Diversity of Families in Today’s Modern Ireland Government must step up with policies and services (Dublin, Thursday 6th April 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating – responds to […]

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Statement | One Family Statement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home

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What Ireland has learned about the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, and how callously and disrespectfully babies and infants were treated in life and in death, seems almost impossible to comprehend. It is difficult to think about it but we must; particularly today, on International Women’s Day. What happened at Tuam was reflective of our society, […]

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Press Release | One-Parent Families almost Four Times More Likely than Two-Parent Households to Live in Consistent Poverty – SILC

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Press Release One-Parent Families almost Four Times More Likely than Two-Parent Households to Live in Consistent Poverty According to new Survey on Income and Living Conditions Government must do more to remove the barriers trapping thousands of lone parents and their children in poverty. (Dublin, Wednesday 2nd February 2017) One Family – Ireland’s organisation for […]

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