Being the only child of a single mum I matured quickly.
After leaving school, the daughter of a single mum joined the army.
The daughter of Irish immigrants who went on to become farmers, she says she "grew up in a rundown area of south London where the only careers advice given to us was the phone number of the local council housing office for when you became a single mum and needed a council flat".
Have been a single mum for 12 years and I'm barely surviving, even though I work full time!" said one when asked about the impact of the proposed changes.
"To think that the opportunity I had is going to be taken from prospective nurses, who like me, just want to help people, means I can't not fight for them," says Marina Down, 22, a single mum and student mental health nurse at King's College London, who will speaking at the march.
Andrea Riseborough (above) gives the performance of her life as a single mum looking for a way out.
It must have been tough for her mother – a white woman, a single mum, raising seven mixed-race children.
It's about who's a single mum looking for a kidney, who's having a fake relationship with another contestant, and which one of them has lived the secret shame that they can't read.
"I'm also a single mum and have been for a while – my problems started when my daughter's father reduced his maintenance and I had a series of health conditions that necessitated me reducing my hours at work.
