A free information programme for parents Parenting through Separation is a free information programme to help you help your kids when you separate. What happens at the programme? You will be in a small group with other parents (up to 16 people). A programme leader will provide you with information. It is not a support group or counselling [...] [...]
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Having your hopes and dreams ripped out from under you is devastating. Having the person you love and were expecting to grow old with turn around and say they don’t want to be with you is heartbreaking to say the least. It crushes you and affects everything you do from getting out of bed in [...] [...] Question: Can I Find Hope When I Feel Like a “Lonely Single Parent?” I hate to sound like a “lonely single parent,” but it’s such a challenge to meet new people when I barely have time for myself as it is. What can I do? Should I resign myself to feeling lonely until my kids are [...] [...] I was talking to a journalist for an editorial about single parents the other day and he asked if our group hooks up single parents with other single parents (in a tone that made me wonder if he’s a single parent himself). I told him we are not at a stage to look at this [...] [...] Housing is a basic human need that’s crucial to a family’s quality of life. Without it, the health and well-being of you and your children suffer and so does you and your family’s chance of gaining good education and employment. Everything your life, and your children’s life is about, has a relationship to your housing. The [...] [...] One of the things single parents can be faced with, is having to ask for welfare assistance when their relationship breaks up. It can be a daunting experience, especially when you’ve never been on a benefit before and even more-so when you haven’t been in New Zealand for long. For this reason I’ve hunted down [...] [...] The internet is a wonderful resource for information. One site I’ve found useful to gain information on different types of child custody and shared parenting is About.com. It has lots of useful information on working together and problems that arise. I thought I would share a few comments made about shared parenting. The first [...] [...] Question: Théun, I am battling with the hurt I am experiencing as a result of my divorce. This hurt mostly comes from us starting to argue about how we should be splitting up our joint assets, and it is this that hurts me, mostly because I keep on wondering if our marriage meant nothing more [...] [...] The stereotype of a single parent is a Maori sole mother under 20 on Domestic Purposes Benefit with kids to different fathers and lazy to boot. Sole parents are often identified as an economic and social “problem” in political debate and by the media. But these stereotypes themselves affect social attitudes and undermine the mental and [...] [...] MP Paua Bennett Long-term unemployed and solo mothers receiving a benefit were put on warning today by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett that they will have to find work – once the recession is over. Following a week of controversy after Ms Bennett released the income details of two solo mothers, Natasha Fuller and Jennifer Johnston, who [...] [...] |
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