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Penny Booth: Single parents? Not again...

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Date:27 APR 2010

Single parents? Not again...

Penny BoothWhat is it about the Sunday papers that often encourages the publication of articles you want to read yet ideas you want to line the cat litter tray with?

Not for the first time not for the last I bet. Single parents are in the firing line as far as family law families the politics of the country etc go... try the Sunday Times on 18 April page 18. The headline is that up to 75% of children (in some areas mind you!) will be born to unmarried mothers. Nicely-put but still rather scary and misleading for the casual reader as all you see is 75% and not the story behind the headline. The ONS data ‘suggests' that in many areas if the birth rate of children to unmarried parents is not already above the 50% mark then it very soon will...

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