Monthly Income Assistance benefits (b a ) for single mothers are based on the average IA benefits for a single parent with one child during the 1990s, as reported in the National Council of Welfare Reports (2002).
For example, a five-day package in late August in North Falmouth on Cape Cod costs $1,209 for a single parent, with children 11 and under $129, and includes four breakfasts, four dinners and lots of activities for adults and children.
Mr. Ciriano, 51, an accounts manager in Burlington, N.C., was riddled with doubts about his ability to carry on as a single parent and was struggling to keep his head above water.
She was there to participate in a panel called "Saving Our Sons," on bringing up sons as a single parent.
But on average, the child with a single parent is 2.5 times more likely to repeat a grade.
'We asked, what is the thing that really irritates you as a single parent on holiday?' Fear of isolation would seem to be the worst thing.
"If my mum had been forced to work and not live her life as a single parent on benefits, she would have had a job and friends and a better life, which would have benefited me," Karen says.
For the past few years, for example, to whittle down the applicant pool, China has limited the number of single parents allowed to adopt to 8percentt of the total, partly on the theory that if a single parent dies, the child has no other parent to turn to, agencies said.
She has often referred to herself as a "single parent," except on weekends.
She moved back to her mother's house, where she began the arduous task of raising Tammy and Teena as a single parent, relying on the social-security checks that began to arrive after Pat Brandon's death.
