Single parents with children aged between 5 and 11 will also be forced to attend work-focused interviews.
But the term family was now being used for many different types of association, with single parents created by death or divorce.
Many support programs are tailored to single mothers, a lot of books are written from a female perspective and both employers and society look at single male parents with a different perspective.
Ministers unveiled plans to shake up of the benefits system earlier this year which would require nearly everyone except single parents with very young children and the severely disabled to prepare for work or face potential penalties.
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.
Referring to a speech he made in January during a debate about the impact of tax and benefit changes, Bishop Michael said it was couples with single-earning parents who were being penalised.
The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.
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IFS. One is simply that many non-savers, such as single parents and young couples with children, have low incomes and high outgoings, and therefore are in no position to save.
It seems unfair that footballers, bankers and tycoons earn more money than they know what to do with whereas jobless folk and single parents struggle to pay the rent, notes Mr Saunders.
Of note, a higher percentage of respondents reported to be single parents but acknowledged co-parenting with someone else.
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Spark Networks' phone reps are trained to work with all types, from jittery single parents who are dating for the first time since a divorce to computer-challenged seniors, to keep them optimistic and shelling out money.
In the older film, the 12-year-old Regan starts acting up because, well, she's possessed by the devil, but also because her parents have just divorced and she now lives with her single mom, a working actress, and you know how that goes.
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.
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