If lone parents are equally motivated by class, ethnicity and locality as by gender then the adjective gendered is not particularly appropriate.
In both cases changing attitudes - towards lone parenthood and the needs of the disabled - have been significant together with institutional factors.
The training needs of lone parents may, however, be assessed with some discretionary grants available.
Part of the solution was seen to be a reduction in the number of workless households, including lone parents.
The 425 parent respondents were overwhelmingly female and 14 per cent were lone parents.
Furthermore, a lone signal may split and appear as two distinct points, or two separate signals may overlap and appear as one.
What role then do grandparents and other extended kin typically play today when one of their own children finds herself or himself a lone parent ?
If the extension of such benefits to new groups of lone parents took shape piecemeal, it might divide the" family lobby" rather than unite them.
