Lone parents victims of ‘monumental failure’

Children have been among those worst hit by seven years of cuts, but the rate of poverty among one-parent families is disproportionally higher than other family types, writes Evelyn Ring.

One Family chief executive Karen Kiernan said Government policy, despite the stated intent to support one-parent families out of poverty, was proving to be a “monumental failure”.

Ms Kiernan said children in one-parent families are more than twice as likely to live in poverty.