"We can't take it anymore": the appeal of single mothers

“Just because I checked box T on my tax return doesn't mean all of a sudden all my problems are solved”.

If you are single, divorced or separated, with one or more dependent children, you know the box of the tax document to which Sandrine refers: the one concerning single parents allowing you to benefit from an additional half share.

“Single parent”?

A mixed box that makes the reality of this situation where women are overrepresented invisible.

Today in France, 25% of families are single parents, compared to less than one in ten forty years ago.

However, women represent 83% of parents at the head of these families (and take care of 84% of minor children living in this configuration) with their corollaries: poverty, difficulties of socio-professional integration, poor housing,

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