Problems of lone parents finding a job to pay for childcare

There isn’t enough childcare for everyone who needs it. Another fact is that most of the people don’t want to take their child to a day-care centre to look after them.  Certainly, parent-child quality time is very important for lone parents.

Single parents bear a hard time when their children reach school age. They’ll have to work and they have to pay childcare. But first at all it isn’t easy for them to get a job. Sometimes their work commitments can’t be matched with their engagement as the sole carer of their children.

There are a lot of people who don’t want to work only to see grow up their children. Now there is a new policy that is more draconian as before, which eliminates the benefits for unemployed people. In that way it stimulates lone parents to search for work. Moreover, the government will save a big amount of money that they can spend on other urgent costs.

Personally, I think that’s a great idea. It’s may be a disadvantage for the single parents, because they’ll see their children less. But when they earn more as usual by working hard, they can give more to their children. After work, there is always time for parent-child quality time if they make an effort. 

Rys Vanessa

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/11/lone-parents-loss-benefits-children-five-school-age