He says that single children hold the key to their parents' pocketbooks.
This suggests that the base pay rates remain too low and that many workers are struggling to make ends meet given the rising cost of living in China and the difficulty that single children have in supporting two aging parents.
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And research from the Brookings Institution found that it can be very difficult for children of single parents to rise up out of poverty: 58% children raised in the poorest third of income levels who lived with two parents rose up, while only 44% of children of single parents were able to.
The research looked at the differences in technology use between families with children and single adults, couples without children and adults who share a home but are not related.
Although ChildLine is associated with helping children raise concerns about abuse, the biggest single reason for children getting in touch is because of "family relationships".
Single moms of children under 6 faced an unemployment rate of 17.5% in 2009.
More people are bringing up children single-handedly, or are in families where both parents work.
Single parents with children aged between 5 and 11 will also be forced to attend work-focused interviews.
She also said that "not one single day of children's education has been disrupted" during the work to rule.
Another demographic change in recent decades is increasing numbers of single mothers with children, often without a high school diploma.
Girls make up the largest single group of children out of school.
There had been far harder times, when she had spent her days sticking labels on wine bottles to earn enough to bring up three children single-handed.
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The old New Deal era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which pays cash mostly to single mothers with children.
And while mothers' employment is up, single mothers with children under five are the least likely to be working with employment rates 28% lower than for mothers who live as part of a couple.
As a result, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution reports in his book evaluating the 1996 welfare reforms, Work Over Welfare, nearly 4.2 million single mothers and children climbed out of poverty, reducing the poverty rate by one-third.
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While it does appear to be true that most households receiving benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP is the new name for food stamps) are out of the work force, a significant fraction do have earnings and most of the rest are poor elderly or disabled households or single parents with children.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is piloting a possible replacement in the form of "single level tests" that children would take to confirm their teachers' assessment that they had reached a higher national curriculum attainment level.
Kolko dug into Census data to see how common it has been over the years for single young women (aged 25-34) with no children to own a single-family detached home.
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One fourth of mothers are single, and at least half of children will spend some time in a single-mother home.
In a sermon to Argentine priests, he attacked those who would not baptise children of single mothers.
There are also many niche scholarships offered to minorities, women, children of single parents--you name it.
She is a single mother of five children, ranging in age from 5 to 14.
We make decisions like this on behalf of our own children every single day.
The government says that offering the single jab would expose children to greater risk.
Safeguarding boards have also been created to ensure there is a single body responsible for children's welfare and protection.
Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school.
She grew up in a poor family in Gabon, Africa, the daughter of a single mother raising five children by herself.
Say that same parent is living with, but not married to, another single parent with two children who earns the same amount.
Then doctors told the 30-year-old single mother of two children that to save her life, they would have to amputate her severely damaged right arm.
To create a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that every single parent knows their children will be taken care of.
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