Will someone please ban this complete idiot poor dads will freak out when reading these posts and that's the last thing they need when their heads are a mess I was on the verge of suicide before I joined and if I read what this clown has wrote it would of pushed me over the edge.
Many thanks
Slim
Hi Slim,
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I have just imposed a 1 week ban, if he returns after that and continues it will be a life time ban, You have a private message too.
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GTTS
www.gingerbread.org.uk
9% of single parents are fathers, ergo 91% are mothers. This is a "fact" that I found in moments on google.
I wish not to troll (?), but to inform, and to not put my shoulders round fathers and say, "hey give it a shot mate, you might win". Saying that you know a guy who knows a guy that won, is about as useful as my knowing a guy who knows a guy that works for Iron Maiden, it doesn't mean I get to hang out with the band.
Don't get angry at me for knowing the system and wanting to share the facts with those that don't, BEFORE its emotionally and financially too late.
To clarify.....
From the most recent statistics, from the Office of National Statistics, there were 18.7 million families in the UK in 2015, 8 million of those with dependent children. Of those almost 2 million were lone parent households. Which means that approximately 6 million families have both parents living in the household.
Of the 2 million lone parent households with dependent children, 10% are fathers, which equals around 200,000 single fathers.
However there are 1.1 million lone parent households with non dependent children and the percentage of these children living with lone fathers rises to 22%, which equates to about 242,000. Non dependent children are children above the age of 15.
So from the figures above you can take it that there are getting on for at least a half a million households with single fathers and the figure is growing. Mothers as the stay at home parent have been the norm for countless generations and we cannot expect this to change overnight.
It must be taken into account that the majority of fathers have full time careers and are the main bread winners in the family dynamic, many fathers are not in a position to take on the role of resident parent due to work commitments. Women are still paid about 29% less than their male counterparts, with many taking on lower paid, part time positions.
There are a number of reasons why the percentage of lone father households is low, as well as work commitments we should also take into account the numbers of absent fathers in the mix.
It's not black and white, but the family dynamic is changing and will continue to do so... Government policies are always slow to catch up with current trends and the machinations of policy making grind extremenly slowly.