One Family
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Ireland's organisation for one-parent families, people sharing parenting & separating. Call our askonefamily helpline: 0818 662212/01 662 9212. Charity No. 6525
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Happy
#NollaignamBan
to all the fearless single mothers past and present who have fought and continue to fight for equality and against the discrimination that is still prevalent.
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Q: how long have
@RENUAIreland
,
@ionainstitute
and the
#Catholic
Church cared about one-parent families? A: for the past two days. We are calling for a YES vote and we will continue to support lone
#parents
as well as women who need abortion care.
#yourYESmatters
#WhoNeedsYourYes
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Fantastic
@RTE
#ExitPoll
for
#DivorceRef
at 87% YES. Well done - a great decision for people in Ireland
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Some great news from
@Legal_Aid_Board
: They will now disregard all State housing support payments, including HAP, as income for the purpose of assessing financial eligibility for legal services. This is a relief for many people w/
#familylaw
issues
@flacireland
@DeptJusticeIRL
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We are devastated to hear there is no once-off €400 cost of living for lone parents whose children live in higher levels of poverty than others. Great that carers, people with disabilities and those on Working Family Payment get it, but this just doesn't make sense
#Budget2024
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Happy
#SingleParentsDay
! Today let us celebrate all the mums and dads and guardians out there who are parenting on their own in many different circumstances, and to those who share parenting. 💓🎉
#SingleParentStrength
@ParentingNI
@Gingerbread
@OPFS
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Historic moment as we are taking the first calls to
#MyOptions
phone line - all lines are busy already as many women have been waiting to make contact to access
#abortion
services in Ireland
@HSELive
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Happy Single Parents Day to all those parenting alone or sharing parenting
#SingleParentsDay
#YouRock
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Happy
#SingleParentsDay
! This is a day set aside to honour & applaud the hard work lone parents do each & every day in raising their children.This is a day to show respect to every person who is parenting alone & who does a double parenting job
#loneparentsrock
@Gingerbread
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"If the children need to sleep, we let them have a sleep at school. If they need time to talk about a worry, we try to give them that. If they need food, we try to give them that" A teacher's testimony on the frontlines of child homelessess
#NoChild2020
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Single parents are calling for the Constitution to finally be amended to recognise their families – and for all State documents such as passports to be updated to “stop stigmatisation”.
@SparkIreland
#endstigmatisation
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Happy
#SingleParentsDay
! Today is set aside to honour & applaud the hard work lone parents do each & every day. This is a day to show respect to every person who is parenting alone & who does a double parenting job
#CelebrateSingleParents
@Gingerbread
@OPFS
@ParentingNI
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Happy
#NollaignamBan
to all the fearless single mothers past and present who have fought and continue to fight for equality and against the discrimination that is still prevalent.
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One Family rejects the sudden concerns and policies to support single parents from the No side. Overall, we have found those same people and organisations to have engaged in practices and communications for many years that have undermined people who are parenting alone.
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The most regressive
#Budget
for lone parents since 2012. Nothing targeted for one-parent families. Once short term help is gone families will be worse off than they are now. As a member of the National One Parent Family Alliance we are shocked
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#Budget2023
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Our first president Mary Robinson and our founders celebrating 50 years of empowering, cherishing and advocating for one-parent families.
#OneFamily50
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"One parent families are disproportionately affected by homelessness - this is not an accident, it is because of government polices..." our CEO
@karenkiernan
on
@rtenews
six one news on Friday.
#homelessness
#HousingCrisis
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"Our society is not structured to support non-traditional families. People need two incomes to survive in this society — and if you don’t, you’re way behind.”
@karenkiernan
#Lockdown3
#COVID19
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Happy
#NollaignamBan
to all the fearless single mothers past and present who have fought and continue to fight the establishment for equality.
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This is shocking - 3/4 of newly homeless families are lone parents. We urgently need a targeted approach to stop these children being left behind by rental and housing costs
The homeless figures published today continue a worrying trend. Since March 2023, an additional 200 families and 370 children became homeless. Lone parent families account for 147 out of the 200. As more lone parents are housed in hubs, history starts repeating itself.
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We're asking you to support the
#VoteYesYes
campaign for the family and care referendums. Make sure you're registered to vote and let's all get out the vote on 8 March!
@SIPTU
@TREOIR
@NWCI
@CarersIreland
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This afternoon we issued a press release calling on 'No'
#MarRef
campaigners to stop using and abusing lone parents
http://t.co/4hK3NyfaGB
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Throughout the weekend, we are going to be posting positive thoughts & quotes from or about single parents because we think lone parents are amazing so if you know of a parent, doing it on their own or sharing parenting send some love and use the
#SingleParentsRock
Thanks
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This is so unacceptable for this still to be continuing a week after
@merrionstreet
has said retailers must facilitate all families to shop. So disappointing
@dunnesstores
@Retail_Irl
Just home from
#dunnesstores
Left in tears, empty handed, feel like throwing up 😭 I was stopped with my kids while the manager was called to ask if we could come in. My colleague walked straight past with her husband and 2 kids while I waited
#discrimination
of OPFs has to STOP
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2K
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On
#SingleParentsDay
and everyday we
#StandWithSingleParents
as they do the hard and important work of parenting alone or sharing parenting. Single parents are resilient and strong and every family should feel cherished and supported 💕
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Happy
#NollaignamBan
to all the single mothers past and present who fearlessly fought and continue to fight for equality and against the discrimination that is still prevalent.
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“The main objective in education...is to help the child to be his own true and best self.” Patrick Pearse quoted in a wonderful article by
@fotoole
on how Ireland's attitude towards children became warped. Join
#NoChild2020
to help to end child poverty
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Tomorrow is
#SingleParentsDay
and this year to celebrate we are joining with
@ParentingNI
@Gingerbread
@OPFS
to honour and applaud the hard work lone parents do each and every day in raising their children.
#SingleParentStrength
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“One-parent families are five times more likely to live in consistent poverty . . . We are calling for investment in childcare supports so that families do not lose out in the new National Childcare Scheme.”
@karenkiernan
CEO of One Family
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Today is UN International Day of Families, to mark the day we are calling for a change to Article 41.3 of the Constitution on the definition of the family. Currently only married families are covered under the Constitution leaving many families unprotected... 1/3
#WeAreFamily
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Fantastic keynote from
@katrionaos
about how being a lone parent is the hardest job, nothing can prepare you for the shame of not having enough for your child and how she’s broken the cycle in her family. State investment and understanding is needed
@joefingalgreen
@HHumphreysFG
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We have only gone and won it! So proud to win the
@aontas
Special Recognition Award for an
@ESF_Ireland
initiative. Proud day for us here in One Family and all our parents who have gone through the programme.
#everydayimlearning
#STARAwards2019
#NewFutures
#lifelonglearning
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"People who are on €350 a week for a family to survive and pay a mortgage payment, paying €50 for a pair of shoes for six weeks is just not practical.” Louise Bayliss
@SparkIreland
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In 1972 when single mothers were ostracised, imprisoned and isolated, a small group of unmarried mothers set out to
#BreakTheBias
by founding Cherish/One Family. On
#IWD
we salute our brave founders and all the women fighting the fight.
#InternationalWomensDay2022
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Two words to consider - lone parents...
How exactly does “blended learning” work with two parents working full time and a question mark over childcare options?
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We welcome the fact that people parenting alone are included in social bubbles
#MentalHealth
#Level5
@MichealMartinTD
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It’s fantastic that shops are accommodating older people so can we also have special hours for
#parents
? Sometimes
#children
have to go if there’s nobody else to mind them. Happy to help with this
@TescoIrl
@lidl_ireland
@Aldi_Ireland
@SuperValuIRL
@ChildRightsIRL
@SparkIreland
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Big thanks to Shelia Wayman for this wonderful piece in the
@IrishTimes
covering our 50th anniversary, thanks also to Evelyn Forde, Anna Lee and our first president Mary Robinson for taking part. 50 years on a lot has changed but stigma & discrimination still continue
#Cherish
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Thanks to
@RomanShortall
for highlighting this issue which routinely happens. It is part of the inspection process for payments for lone parents based on a male breadwinner model. We hear about it all the time and have highlighted the need for policy change and staff training
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We are calling for a YES vote in the
#DivorceRef
on May 24 to remove the wait time for divorce from the Constitution. For the campaign we're looking for people who have gone through a divorce to speak publically to the media. If you are interested pls contact: comms
@onefamily
.ie
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Today our CEO
@karenkiernan
presented on our
#ChildMaintenance
paper in Leinster House by invitation of
@johnbradysf
with
@i_am_jessica_b
. Great to see support of
@SenLynnRuane
as well who has also been working on this. Looking forward to next steps from
@welfare_ie
and
@ReginaDo
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1 in 4 families with children in 🇮🇪 is a one-parent family yet still stigma & judgemental attitudes persist.
This why tomorrow for
#SinglerParentsDay2023
we are celebrating the strength & resilience of those who parent alone. Join us using
#SingleParentStrength
#SingleParentJoy
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In Ireland, children in one-parent families are entitled to just 7 weeks of Parent's Benefit, while children in two-parent families are entitled to 14 weeks of Parent's Benefit.
#SingleParentsWeek
#ChildCare
#ParentsBenefit
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It is great to get a result like this on our work to highlight this problem over the past weeks in partnership with
@SVP_Ireland
@SparkIreland
@ChildRightsIRL
@flacireland
@NWCI
@TREOIR
@Retail_Irl
Measures in some supermarkets have been making it difficult for some families with children to access groceries. Retailers have been asked to use a common-sense approach. | Follow live updates:
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Good morning! Big shout out to everyone parenting alone, sharing parenting or parenting through separation. We think you are brilliant and you're doing a fantastic job in really difficult circumstances. You’re a star and if you need us we're back on Tuesday
#singleparentsrock
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To all the mums and dads and guardians out there who are parenting on their own in many different circumstances, and to those who share parenting, celebrate you. You are amazing!
#SingleParentsRock
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We absolutely reject vile untruths from
@mrs_bopp
on
@rtenews
re children in one-parent families. Science/truth here
http://t.co/ShOUOOoKqh
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Big thanks to
@SocDems
leader
@HollyCairnsTD
for coming along to the National One Parent Family Alliance briefing for public representatives today at Buswells
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Many women and children will spend the next few weeks in suffocating circumstances with their abusers because of the measures to combat
#COVID19
There are women trapped inside with their abuser who are using this opportunity to further their control
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"If you’re a child attending some of the most disadvantaged schools in the capital, you’re likely to have significantly lower literacy and numeracy scores,there’s a higher chance you’ll drop out of school and it’s unlikely you’ll go to college
#NoChild2020
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Former One Family Chairperson and service user, and Chief Commissioner of
@_IHREC
@sineadgibney
reads a powerful poem she wrote inspired by her experiences as a lone parent. "I am a single mother, I cherish my child. Look at me."
#OneFamily50
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"In Ireland 2017, while 3.9 per cent of homes with children and two parents were in the harshest consistent poverty, a staggering 20.7 per cent of homes headed by single-parents were."
#NoChild2020
@ChildRightsIRL
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Our President former Senator and obstetrician Mary Henry and our CEO
@karenkiernan
at today’s launch of
@Together4yes
#Together4Yes
calling for Ireland to repeal the 8th amendment
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@SenatorKeogan
@HollyCairnsTD
And in One Family we’re delighted to work with all genders and none 😀. Our collaboration on
#parenting
support with
@TENI_Tweets
and
@Belong_To
should be available later this year with funding from
@dcediy
. Continuing to move forward meeting families needs…
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Great to meet
@SenLynnRuane
who supports women in all circumstances just like
@1familyireland
#Togeher4Yes
#repealedThe8th
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Interesting conversation on
@rtenews
about
#loneliness
. We totally agree with caller saying that single parents, particularly on low incomes, are very lonely. Research shows the most socially isolated people in Ireland are single mothers
@dreddiemurphy
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Happy
#SingleParentsDay
. Let's
#CelebrateSingleParents
today and show some appreciation to the
#ProudSingleParents
in our lives. Tag a single parent you know
@Gingerbread
@ParentingNI
@OPFS
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Yes vote in referendums ‘champions rights’ for disabled people, single-parent families, carers, say campaigners
#VoteYesYes
@katrionaos
@SparkIreland
@NWCI
@ILMIreland
@CarersIreland
@CareAllianceIrl
@TREOIR
@PatLeahyIT
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Serious concerns re dangers of court ordered contact for
#children
where parents have separated due to
#domesticabuse
and the urgent need for
#ChildContactCentres
by Margaret Martin of
@Womens_Aid
and
@saoirse_b
of
@ChildRightsIRL
#legalaidconf2018
#FamilyJusticeReform
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Author of the report
@SVP
‘s Dr
@triciakeilthy
, said it was “clear that Ireland is failing to protect lone parents and their children from the adverse affects of poverty”
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We are delighted to be one of the awardees of
@Rethink_Ireland
Mná na hÉireann, Women of Ireland Empowerment Fund. This will allow us to reach more lone parents who need support to progress to education or employment through online
#NewFutures
employability supports.
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We are delighted to launch our Contact Time for Infants & Young Children research report written by researchers from
@tcddublin
and
@ucc
- available now and free to download at . With thanks to
@CommunityFound
&
@RTELateLateShow
#FamilyLawReform
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Happy Mother's Day! 💓 To all the wonderful Mams who are parenting alone or sharing parenting, today there may not be anyone to organise a gift or card but we don't need greeting cards or gifts to know that we're amazing parents. What is important is.. 1/2
#happymothersday
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70% of homeless families in Dublin were one-parent families whose children were experiencing the highest levels of poverty in Ireland. “The provision of public housing in vast numbers is long overdue and investment is urgently required,” Karen Kiernan, One Family CEO said. 2/2
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"It’s like an abandoned place that people forgot about, it’s like we’re forgotten, we feel like garbage.” That’s the direct experience of a 12-year-old girl, living in a halting site, explained to the Ombudsman for Children.
#HousingCrisis
@PaveePoint
0
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Heartbreaking account from NIna of her life as a single parent and fulltime carer for her young son and the incredible toll this takes
@RyanTubridyShow
. In her words ‘there is nobody else to do it’. Many lone parents are carers of children w/ disabilities +/or elderly parents 1/2
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This is so welcome to see - gender equality does not have to mean discrimination against one-parent families
@rodericogorman
@dcediy
@welfare_ie
#ParentsLeave
@SparkIreland
@NWCI
@SVP_Ireland
@TREOIR
@Barnardos_IRL
@ChildRightsIRL
@flacireland
@FocusIreland
82.2% of members voted that paid Leave for parents should provide lone parents with the same total leave period as a couple.
#CitizensAssembly
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Happy International Women's Day to all the hard working mothers doing the toughest job there is! You are all superwomen! 💪
#IWD2021
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We welcome comittment from
@LeoVaradkar
to deal w/
#ChildPoverty
as we’ve been working hard w/ other orgs for years as most poor children sadly live in one-parent families
@SVP_Ireland
@Barnardos_IRL
@ISPCCChildline
@ChildRightsIRL
@SparkIreland
@CommunityFound
@TREOIR
@NWCI
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That such a large proportion of our children are living below the poverty line has major implications for the education system,for the success of these children within it,for their job prospects in the future & for Ireland’s economic potential
#NoChild2020
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Many women today are shamed for seeking housing close to the support they need to live.
#housing
#HousingCrisis
@SenLynnRuane
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
we give a huge shout out to our founders, and our personal heroes, who fought and challenged the status quo by establishing Cherish/One Family at a time when unmarried mothers were being ostracised and imprisoned.
#IWD2023
#InternationalWomensDay2023
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First step to end child
#homelessness
. Legislate to ensure the best interests of the child informs any decision about where to accommodate them and their family. The legislation should clearly time- limit the use of emergency accommodation for families with children.
#NoChild2020
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To all the Mams doing an amazing job, we wish you a very, very Happy Mother's Day.
And to all the Dads, Grandparents and carers out there who also have a double parenting role, or those who share parenting, we wish you a Happy Mother's Day too.
What you do really matters. 💕
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Lovely article of single mammies and their sons in today’s
@IrishTimes
by
@jenoconnell
. Featuring
@deborah_somorin
@CunninghamLaura
@FoleyKillaloe
@children_grief
@Twistingthejar
@clodaghohagan
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Today we want to celebrate the amazing work people parenting alone & sharing parenting are doing in many different circumstances. To us and your child you rock! Stay positive & if you know someone parenting or sharing parenting on their own reach out say hello
#SingleParentsRock
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Child maintenance will also be excluded from social welfare means tests- this will make a big difference to struggling lone parents. Child maintenance is for children and should not be means tested by any Govt Dept.
This is welcome & was originally announced in December so it's good to see regulations being signed off. This is something, we and the other nine members organisations of the National One Parent Family Alliance (NOPFA) have pushed for a long time.
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Delighted to meet our former Boardie
@katrionaos
today at the
#PreBudgetForum
who is the keynote speaker, speaking about her experience as a lone parent, how
@welfare_ie
helped her and what’s needed now.
@CarlyBee25
#Poor
#Budget2024
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We are pleased that Government listened to us last year and finally increased the Single Person Child Carer Credit by €100 to €1750, but this continues to inexplicably lag behind other individual tax credit rates.
#Budget2024
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@AndrewMageePsy
@thepowerscourt
Thanks Andrew for raising this, we've contacted
@thepowerscourt
and asked them to introduce options for diverse families. This though is a wider issue - until we recognise diverse families in our Constitution by changing article 41.3 on the def. of the family this will continue
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The consistent poverty rate for households with 1 adult and children under 18 years is at 14.1% compared with 5.3% in two parent households, that's almost 3x the rate. We need targeted supports
#CSO
#SILC
@SparkIreland
@Barnardos_IRL
@SVP_Ireland
@FocusIreland
@frcnf
@SVP_Ireland
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10
33
One Family are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract for the National Telephone Counselling Service for Crisis Pregnancy and Post-Abortion following a European wide e-tender process
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Dear Twitter, can someone with time/ expertise help gather live online info about shops in towns/local areas that have good practices for parents who need to bring children and those who won’t. We need to help parents right now! Get in touch so we can figure this out together 🙏
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‘The National One Parent Family Alliance said it’s “deeply concerned about the disproportionate and escalating levels of
#homelessness
among one parent families’.
@SparkIreland
@TREOIR
@Barnardos_IRL
@NWCI
@ChildRightsIRL
@SVP_Ireland
@FocusIreland
@frcnf
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We are calling on all all retailers (hardware & food) to consider the needs of one-parent families in their
#Phase1
planning. Some families incl. those parenting alone or partners of frontline workers must visit shops with their children
@SparkIreland
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"...widows and single parents are facing unprecedented challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak. Ms Hobbs feels deeply uncomfortable when she brings her small children grocery shopping."
#COVID
ー19
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Finland to give equal paternity and maternity leave to parents: "A single parent would have access to the daily allowance quotas for both parents". This is unlike Ireland where a single parent only gets half the time.
@welfare_ie
@DeptJusticeIRL
0
16
30
Great presentation from Dr. Simone McCaughren and Dr. Aisling Parkes on "Not seen and not heard? - An Irish Study Exploring the Voice of Young Children in Decisions regarding Post-Separation Contact"
#PEISummit
#prevention
#earlyintervention
@PEIN_Ire
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10
31
A group that policy has failed,and continues to fail,is one-parent families...Today, almost half of one-parent families live below the poverty line.This rate is the second highest out of all 28 EU countries...
#EndChildPoverty
#Budget2019
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Congrats
@HollyCairnsTD
@SocDems
- great to welcome Holly and her family to our recent 50th anniversary celebrations to remember how grandparents Frank & Sylvia supported
#Cherish
in the early days "Holly Cairns will become next Social Democrats leader"
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How lone parents are treated in the budget will be a test of the Government’s commitment to gender equality and child poverty. It's now time for the Gov. to act! Big thank you to
@Barnardos_IRL
,
@SenLynnRuane
,
@aliceeire
,
@SparkIreland
,
#Budget2019
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5
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We are shocked and disappointed no changes to child maintenance were announced in
#Budget23
.
@HHumphreysFG
must publish the recommendations of the Review Group urgently.
@NWCI
@SparkIreland
@SVP_Ireland
@Barnardos_IRL
@flacireland
@TREOIR
@frcnf
@FocusIreland
@ChildRightsIRL
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We’re not surprised to hear this at all as lone parents have really struggled this year with home schooling. Great research by our former Board member
@katrionaos
‘One in 10 women quit jobs over pressure of juggling work and pandemic home life’
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🧵 Ending the
#EvictionBan
will hit one-parent families hardest. We know this because the
#housingcrisis
has disproportionately affected one-parent families since it began. 1/4
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One Family has welcomed today’s announcement that a
#Referendum
on Family, Care and Gender Equality is to be held in Nov. 23 saying that an inclusive view to family can act as an ‘act of symbolic reparation’ for the wrongs of the past. Read our release:
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One Family has been a force of change in Irish society since our foundation as Cherish in 1972. This year we celebrate our 50th Anniversary and we repeat our call for a change to the definition of family in the Constitution to a more inclusive definition...
#NollaigNamBan
(1/2)
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An historic day as we move closer to
#Constitutional
equality for all families and reparation for the destruction of families in Mother & Baby Homes in the past. Our founders' dreams may come true yet
#GenderEquality
@LeoVaradkar
@MichealMartinTD
@ivanabacik
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9
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We know from supporting thousands of separating parents and families that we need a more humane and compassionate divorce system in Ireland. If we Vote YES in the
#DivorceRef
next week we will be taking a big step towards achieving that.
#divorceref
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It would be a terrible mistake to abolish the Department of Children especially at a time when children's voices need to be heard more than ever
@DCYAPress
@FineGael
@fiannafailparty
@greenparty_ie
@ChildRightsIRL
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