Sarah McEntee: Referendum on family and care just a first step

Some 98% of full-time carers are women, and the continuing reliance on them for care and unpaid work has huge consequences for economic equality

The Government has confirmed plans to hold referendums on constitutional references to family and care in March.

As a lone parent of two teenage children whose experience of our chronic care system has been nothing short of brutal, I have a huge stake in the outcome of the March referendum replacing the role of “women in the home” in the Constitution with a new clause that explicitly recognises care within the family.

I have been parenting completely alone for the past 14 years with no involvement financially or otherwise from my children’s father.