Ireland near top of table for one-parent families

IRELAND has one of the highest rates in Europe of children living in single-parent households.

Almost one in four children in Ireland come from a lone parent household, compared to the EU average of just one in seven.

And while some countries like Latvia, Estonia and Britain have a similar figure to that in Ireland, others like Spain and Greece only have one in 14 and one in 20 children respectively living with one parent.