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Poor families bear brunt of coalition's austerity drive
Research into prejudice faced by lone mothers of mixed-race children
Ten big questions about the Big Society
How will lone parents cope with having to find a job when their children reach school age?
Coalition budget faces legal challenge from Fawcett Society over claims women will bear brunt of cuts
Child Trust Fund payments to drop sharply
Tax credit repayments 'to soar'
Single payment as part of a "radical" shake-up of the welfare system.
NICK CLEGG: Why it's time for families to come first.
Outcry over plans not to extend free school meals
Poverty tsar Frank Field looks at child benefit cuts
Single Parent wins 'Best Show Garden' at Chelsea Flower show.
Review on Poverty and Life Chances
'Volunteers are essential'
Coalition government sets out radical welfare reforms
Tax child benefit to beat poverty
Couple see off redundancy to open children's centre
New guidelines for volunteering have been issued by DWP
School smacking loophole closed
Budget 2010 key points
A legal right to a bank account
Pregnant teenagers forced out of education by a lack of support
Lone parents in new benefits trial
Child maintenance choices available
Childcare costs soar despite recession
Family rows 'threat to childhood'
Save the Children says severe child poverty 'going up'
A strange week for Dr Katherine Rake
Govt agency predicts the end of family
School lessons to tackle domestic violence
End Child Poverty in the UK
Politics.co.uk reports on SPAN's conference
Gingerbread talking about the impact of the Welfare Reform Bill
IDS: Dramatic welfare reforms needed
Child poverty plans 'require innovation'
Child poverty: Still with us
On being a weekend dad
Are 'broken families' responsible for 'Broken Britain'?
Number of parents has 'little impact'
1 in 3 teenage girls tell of sexual abuse by their boyfriends
Spend early on children, says OECD
High spending fails to improve child welfare, says OECD report
My work-life balance problems
Terence Blacker: Marriage isn't always the ideal state
Why today's parents are simply the best
'People think we are slags'
Targeting unlicensed money lenders
UK bottom of the pile for child wellbeing
Grandparental care: where older people’s poverty and child poverty meet’
Up to £50 a week may be earned without benefit cut
DWP press release - Supporting family friendly work
Fraught in a Trap - Lone Parents face Sanctions.
Who needs two parents?
Child Poverty Bill published today - Friday 12th June
Alice and Karl are doing a skydive
A portrait of 21st-century poverty
New childcare reforms unveiled as cost of pre-school care rises higher than rate of inflation
Men become richer after divorce
A lone voice
Million poor pupils denied free meals
All children should get free school meals
One in four British children living in poverty due to breakdown of traditional families
When working isn’t worth it
David Cameron attacks Labour's 'shameful' lone parent plan
Girls' Growing Pains