Single parent charity highlights negligible increase in lone parenthood over the past ten years.

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04/10/07 Commenting today on figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that the proportion of families who are lone parents has increased by less than one per cent over the past ten years, Chief Executive of One Parent Families|Gingerbread Chris Pond said:

"These figures show that while families in Britain come in many shapes and sizes, the proportion of families headed by a lone parent appears to have stabilised over the past ten years, refuting suggestions that tax and benefit policies in recent years have favoured or created more single parent families.

What hasn't changed for lone parents is that they remain the poorest family type. Half of children growing up in a one parent family are poor - even though nearly sixty per cent of lone parents are now in work.

On the eve of a possible general election we are calling for politicians to set out how they will support all families, and how they will meet the target to end child poverty that all have signed up to."

Notes to editors:

1. One Parent Families|Gingerbread is the national charity supporting one parent families in England and Wales. The charity has been formed from the merger of One Parent Families and Gingerbread. More information is available on this website.

2. Figures published today by the Office for National Statistics show that the proportion of lone parent families increased by less than one per cent between 1996 and 2006. Further information is available here: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1865

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