Single parents successful at work – short stories: Brigid
“Hi my name is Brigid and I’m a single mum of four amazing children; ages from 17-3 years old. Getting a job was never the hard part for me but finding a job with [...]
Scotland – Short Stories of famous “successful” single parents
J.K. Rowling "I had imagined that I would be back at work fast. Indeed, it was because I expected to be employed outside of the home again that I was working so hard to [...]
Famous Irish Single Parents and Sharing Parenting
Grainne Seoige, broadcaster Grainne Seoige gives her most revealing interview. As a single mother, she started her broadcasting career in Teilifis na Gaeilge, now TG4; always putting her son first and getting through with [...]
Ava talks about low self-esteem, lacking confidence & feeling isolated.
"I came to Ireland for a better life but the experience I had was quite the opposite of that. When I lived in Nigeria, I was a happy, open, caring, kind, confident and a [...]
Katherine talks about returning to work and challenging negative perceptions attached to single parenting.
"I had been working when I became pregnant and after my child was born I made the decision to return to work straight after, it wasn’t an easy decision. I think every mother would [...]
Melissa talks about the struggles of parenting and becoming a “proud warrior mother”.
"As a single parent pretty much from the early months of pregnancy, I have endured and managed the past ten years pretty much on my own. I was told by a very dear friend [...]
Joanna talks about finding suitable childcare and social stigma.
Whilst all family types have challenges when it comes to issues of childcare, they are more acute when it comes to one-parent families. I am a qualified teacher but I do not have a [...]
Tracey from Ireland talks about stigma, isolation moving into employment
"I had two children at eighteen, a boy and a girl. I faced a lot of issues during the first few years of being a parent including prejudice, poverty, discrimination, low self-esteem and isolation. [...]
Christine talks about feeling depressed and isolated.
Parent case study. I have been living in Ireland since January 2005. I came here, freshly married with a good job opportunity in my pocket and full of hope and happiness with a heart full [...]
Single parents successful at work – short stories: Sam
Sam has her master’s degree in social sciences, and works in a managment position the charity sector. She lives in the outer suburbs of Dublin,and commutes to her job by car. She is a [...]