Attack on Parents Sharing Parenting After Separation is Unjust, Unfair and Underhand

Press Release Attack on Parents Sharing Parenting After Separation  is Unjust, Unfair and Underhand (Dublin, Thursday 17 October 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, is deeply concerned by the removal of the One Parent Family tax credit and tax free allowance announced on Tuesday as part of Budget 2014 which will have […]

Budget 2014 is anti-family and anti-parent

Press Release More attacks on working mothers and shared parenting Budget 2014 is anti-family and anti-parent (Dublin, Tuesday 15 October 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families today responds to Budget 2014 noting the removal of the One Parent Family Tax Credit, the cutting of Maternity Benefit at the higher rate and no […]

One Family Responds to Media Reports of Social Welfare Fraud and Notion of the ‘Undeserving Lone Parent’

Press Release One Family Responds to Media Reports of Social Welfare Fraud and Notion of the ‘Undeserving Lone Parent’ (Dublin, Wednesday 9 October 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, responds to recent reports of social welfare fraud and the targeting of claimants of one-parent family benefits by Department of Social Protection investigators. […]

10 Solutions. No Cuts. Budget 2014.

Press Release 10 Solutions. No Cuts. Budget 2014. (Dublin, Wednesday 18 September 2013) One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, calls on Government to recognise that today’s challenging environment has impacted hardest on the 215,000 one-parent families in Ireland today, with those living in lone parent households suffering more than twice the national average […]

Public call to give one-parent families an equal chance for economic well-being in Budget 2014

Press Release (Dublin, Friday 19 July) Today One Family, Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families, calls on members of the public to email and connect with their local TDs to demand the implementation of One Family’s “10 Solutions for Smarter Futures,” a series of ten no-nonsense, low or no-cost actions that government must implement to […]