At 36, as a single parent, she started law school at Georgetown University Law Center.
Last year, she appeared in Philip Ridley's Shivered at Southwark Playhouse, as a single parent who experiments with sexual violence after her son is killed, followed by Penelope Skinner's thriller, Fred's Diner, at Chichester – "It was such brilliant dark, edgy new writing" – in which she played a 30-something on a belated gap year, in a wig of pink plaited dreads.
The household cap is not tapered by number of children in the family, so a family of five will be capped at the same rate as a single parent family, if their benefits and housing benefit reach the cap.
I became pregnant at 21 and a single parent at 23.
The rationale is that by that age a stay-at-home parent or a single parent can find work and would be more inclined to look for it if they were denied the government handouts.
Both New England women of the 1960s, both poor, both at the mercy of a single parent who pushes them to live a life they don't necessarily want to live.
At the time, I, a single parent with an aging mother to care for (and without health insurance for any of us), was down to money for only 1 more month of mortgage payments.
With the federal poverty level for a two-person household at $15,510 for 2013, a single parent of one child earning an average Walmart wage would be well above that poverty level and expect to pay federal taxes.
And so, at 55, she found herself a single parent, toilet-training her 10th child.
Then I had a family, and that changed things — it's very hard to direct a movie and be a single parent at the same time".
