Groups supporting unmarried parents have called for urgent reform of the law on the guardianship rights of single fathers.

UNMARRIED parents who live together are being forced to pay more income tax than their married counterparts yet if they find themselves on benefits, they are treated like a married couple and have fewer individual entitlements.

THE number of children receiving home tuition grants has increased, but only a fraction of the hundreds of schoolgirls who become pregnant are availing of the payments, with only 70 teenage girls receiving the grant last year.

THE most awkward question a child can ask is not always where they come from — sometimes it is who they come from.