Courts Need Professionally Conducted Assessments to Ensure Child Safety

Press Release Courts Need Professionally Conducted Assessments to Ensure Child Safety Child Contact Centre Pilot Services Evaluation Launched by One Family (Dublin, Thursday 27 March 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families – launches the Evaluation of the Child Contact Centre pilot services and its Policy Recommendations for Policy Makers document on […]

Childcare Provision Failure is One of Government’s Harshest Blows to One-Parent Families

Press Release Childcare Provision Failure is One of Government’s Harshest Blows to One-Parent Families www.onefamily.ie (Dublin, Wednesday 19 March 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today – responds to the pending publication of a new report due for release later this month by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and […]

An International Women’s Day Focus – Mother’s Education Level

Press Release An International Women’s Day Focus – Mother’s Education Level and Impacts on Lone Parenthood and Well-Being of Children (Dublin, Friday 7th February 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today – looks forward to acknowledgment of International Women’s Day on Saturday 8th March and calls for a new […]

Children and Family Relationships Bill is a Good First Step but We Have Concerns

Press Release Children & Family Relationships Bill provides first steps to a modern Family Law system in Ireland – but One Family warns that family law courts need the resources to do their job properly for all children (Dublin, Thursday 30 January 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland today […]

New Report Proves Marriage is not Responsible for Children’s Well-being

Press Release New Report Proves Marriage is not Responsible for Children’s Well-being (Dublin, Friday 20 December 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, welcomes the launch today of the report ‘Growing Up in a One-Parent Family’, a study by researchers at the University of Limerick using the ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ data, published […]