Lone parents do not take the easy way out

HOW dare Maurice Fitzgerald (Irish Examiner letters, February 11), call lone parenting “the easy way out”. From personal experience I can tell him it is anything but.

Thu, 17 Feb, 2005 - 00:00

Only a tiny minority of lone mothers “deliberately get pregnant in order to get a house”.

Councils build houses for ‘traditional’ as well as lone-parent families, and the waiting lists for all types of house are enormous.

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