One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has launched its first dedicated national survey aiming to document the experiences and challenges of lone parents and their children living in Ireland.
One Family invites people living in one-parent families to help gather important data to highlight the unique challenges experienced by this social group. The organisation is looking to hear from anyone parenting alone, sharing parenting or going through separation. This includes parents, step-parents, kinship carers, guardians or foster parents. Your participation will help develop research that can build a comprehensive picture of the significant and sustained life challenges faced by one-parent families across the country.
The survey can be accessed through One Family's website here.
Completing the survey also provides parents in one-parent families with the opportunity to participate in the One Family Advocacy Project, an initiative funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which aims to promote equality, enhance wellbeing, and support financial and social inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in Irish society. Learn more here.
One Family is a specialist provider of family support and therapeutic services to people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating, as well as educational and employability programmes to lone parents. Through its advocacy work, together with partner organisations, it aims to effect positive change in policies, laws and attitudes, and ensure specific supports for one-parent families in Ireland. It also works with those experiencing an unplanned or crisis pregnancy.
Click here to access the survey.