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Some Australian Single Parent Statistics...

In June 2006, there were 592,000 one-parent families (with children under 15 years) - 87%

515,040 of them were headed by mothers*

Overall percentage of (all families with children aged under 15) single mother families in Australia in 2008 with children aged under 15

17.7%*

The Northern Territory

has the highest rate of single parent families in the country (2008)*

*Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, December 2010

*Latest Australian Divorce Statistics...

Overall number of Divorces in Australia in 2009 -

49,448

(an increase of 2,239 (4.7%) compared to 2008)

24,268 of those divorces involved children under the age of 18yrs, representing 49.1% of all divorces granted

*Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, December 2010

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24 February 2012
Lifestyle Channel

Lifestyle.com.au
How To Deal With Bullying by Professor Freda Briggs - SingleMum.com.au Exclusive Article supplied for their Health - Parenting section
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29 January 2012
Change baffles parents

Jason Bryce | Courier Mail
Successful SingleMum.com.au Media Call Out supplied a single mother for this article. Jason Bryce is also a member of the SingleMum.com.au Expert Panel
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14 January 2012
Back To School On A Budget

Susie O'Brien | Herald Sun
Excerpts taken from SingleMum.com.au's exclusive feature article Back to School on a Single Mum Budget.
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13 October 2011
Home Alone

ACA Top Story | A Current Affair
SingleMum.com.au's Director Barbara Bryan discusses a common single parents dilemma in a story featuring a single mum who felt forced to leave her 8 year old son alone, in order to keep her job
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31 July 2011
50/50 Parenting

Brendan Knight | ABC Radio National
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June 5 2011
When Good Parents Turn Bad
Sunday Magazine | Sunday Telegraph

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June 3 2011 - Single Mums health at risk
Tim Webster | The Evening Show | Radio 2UE

SingleMum.com.au's Director Barbara Bryan chats to Tim Webster about a recent study that has concluded that single mothers are at excessive risk of bad health more...

June 3 2011 - Parenting all alone can be health hazard
The Daily Telegraph

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May 6 2011 - Spending curbed to look after son
Herald Sun

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SINGLE mum Jacqui Tallon works hard for her money, but things aren't getting any easier...I chose to go back to work rather than be a mum on a pension, so I had to make a choice to live with my parents," Ms Tallon said. The sacrifice means Ms Tallon, a member of single mums forum singlemum.com.au, can afford to indulge Brodie with dancing, swimming and tennis lessons. more...

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6 April 2011 - Family Law discussion
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How current family law is affecting single mums in Australia - are single mums or dads disadvantaged in family court?

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What does it mean to be a single mum?Of course, the

kids

are the most important thing in a single mum's life. Kids are the focus and always have been. But along with the children, there are other matters that can confuse a single mum's life.

Centrelink

plays a big part of a single mother's life, mainly because this is where a large percentage of single mums get their finances from. Centrelink are the source from where the

single mother pension

, or as it is otherwise known, the single parent payment comes from. The single mother pension is a subsistence amount, but just the same, it is money to live on, and so it is important, no matter if it is called single parent payment, single mother pension or whatever Centrelink welfare classes it at the time

Often, single mums come out of a
divorce
or defacto relationship only to find that their troubles have just begun, and find that their first step leads them towards Family Law - it's time to engage a lawyer.There are more than just Centrelink finance problems to worry about, as mentioned before, but also

child custody

issues. Child custody is something that hits right at the heart of

single mums

. If a single mother's ex husband or ex partner has been a domestic violence perpetrator, the mum may be greatly worried about child custody. They worry that their kids won't be safe with their spouse, who has already proven to be abusive because they caused

domestic violence

, which resulted in a divorce or separation.

Even so,

Family Court

will often still order a form of child custody named

Shared Parenting

. Shared Parenting is a form of child custody division of time or parental responsibility between the parents. Mother's often look for a good divorce lawyer to try to avoid share parenting with an abusive ex-spouse after divorce, however in many cases Shared Parenting is still the outcome after the divorce, no matter how good the divorce lawyers have been. They will often settle for visitation at a contact centre or access centre where fathers or mothers are supervised during child custody access.

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