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Go to the SBS News website

News Article

SBS News Website | March 2013
SingleMum.com.au conducted a Media Call Out for this SBS TV News article. Singlemum.com.au is linked within it - "Single parents pleased with UN intervention"
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Go to Cosmopolitan Pregnancy Magazine

Article feature

Cosmopolitan Pregnancy Magazine | February 2013
SingleMum.com.au's Barbara Bryan gives Child Support advice in a single mum pregnancy feature article in Cosmopolitan Pregnancy magazine - "Australia's number 1 guide to pregnancy"
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Go to Call Out

Corporate Event

Conference Speakers Australia | January 2013
30 Australian single mum families supplied for a team-building activity for a corporate group where each child received a free bike and helmet go to Conference Speakers website...




Go to the CelebrateLife TV website

25 December 2012
My Christmas 2012 - CelebrateLife TV

Nine Network
Ten single mums supplied for a free Christmas lunch at Zigi's restaurant Chippendale, Sydney through Single Mum Media Call Out for this 2012 Christmas Day TV special
go to the CelebrateLife TV website


Go to the Our Say website

16 November 2012
Our Say Families Workshop

OurSay.org
Single mums supplied in Sydney and Melbourne to attend 1-2 hour workshops to prepare interested parents in online campaigning for a forum being run by OurSay and FaHCSIA (Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Australians).
go to the Our Say website



Go to the Sydney Morning Herald news website

16 November 2012
Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Morning Herald
Single mum family supplied through Single Mum Media Call Out for this Sydney Morning Herald weekend feature article
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Go to the Courier Mail article

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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Go to the Courier Mail article

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
go to the Courier Mail website


Go to the Herald Sun

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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Go to the A Current Affair video

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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Go to ABC Radio National

31 July 2011
50/50 Parenting

Brendan Knight | ABC Radio National
Large media call-out resulting in SingleMum.com.au members featured in ABC Radio National Sunday morning Shared Parenting feature
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Go to Daily Telegraph story

June 5 2011
When Good Parents Turn Bad
Sunday Magazine | Sunday Telegraph

SingleMum.com.au sourced 2 x single mums and lawyer for article


Go to Radio 2UE Evening Show with Tim Webster

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...


Go to Daily Telegraph story

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

SingleMum.com.au forum member sourced from our Media Call-Out
SingleMum.com.au Director quoted and website referenced in article

COOKING, cleaning, child minding, financial planning, not much time to yourself and little peaceful sleep - as far as job descriptions go, the role of a single mother is tough more...

Go to Herald Sun story

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

SingleMum.com.au forum member sourced from our Media Call-Out (within 2hrs)
SingleMum.com.au referenced in article

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...

Go to Mum To Mumpreneur ebook

Published: April 2011 - Mum To Mumpreneur - A Real Life Guide
Jodi Gibson | Ace Virtual Assistance


Book, 200 pages, the basics for solo business owners - includes an advice section from Singlemum.com.au founder and Director, Barbara Bryan
In e-book format.
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Go to Radio 2UE

6 April 2011 - Family Law discussion
Afternoon show | Radio 2UE, Sydney

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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