Single parents demand equality and an end to ongoing discrimination against us

If the State does not protect and respect single-parent families within the Constitution then society does not have to respect or offer equality to those same women and children. Photo posed.

Laura Lynott

Ireland, we need to talk. There are members of our forward-thinking nation who still stigmatise and enforce discrimination against single mothers.

And to move forward from the sins of this country’s past, changes certainly must be made to improve women’s and children’s lives today.