Lone parents in employment
Rate at 56.3%

Lone Parent Poverty
Lone parents under the age of 25 account for just one in eight of all young adults in poverty and just a fifth all the lone parents in poverty. The stereotypical image of a lone parent in poverty as a young, teenage mum, is quite wrong. Rather, most lone parents in poverty are aged 25 or over and there are as many over 40 as under 25.5

Among children in poverty in 2005/06, half live in working families and half in workless ones. Three-fifths live in couple families while two-fifths live with a lone parent. Clearly, many families are now headed by a lone parent and millions of children live in a one parent family. However, the negative portrait of lone parenthood painted in the press and media is based on the fiction rather than the facts around being a lone parent. Nevertheless, lone parents need specific types of support in order to ensure that they do not experience exclusion from
employment and training opportunities. Support for lone parents is also key to the Government’s pledge to cut child poverty.

...less likely to live in an area of low deprivation (20% of mothers in couple families lived in an area in the least deprived quantile of the deprivation index compared with just 2% of lone mothers who did not live with other adults).....

Lone parents now enter employment at the same rate as comparable groups; the real challenge lies in their ability to maintain jobs. Research suggests that if lone parents’ job retention rate could be raised to that of other groups, the Westminster Government’s target for 70 per cent of lone parents to be in employment by 2010 could be met without further increasing job entry rates.

http://www.opfs.org.uk/files/one-parent-families_a-profile_2009.pdf


*excerpts taken from the above 7 page document.. which includes links to the stats they base their figures on.

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