The report from CSMC's national survey of single mothers, released earlier this year, revealed that single mothers are employed at equivalent levels to partnered mothers. Yet every single mother will tell you, when you are the sole financial provider for your family,...
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Budget 2024-2025: What single mothers need to know
Anyone who caught the news this week knows all the top stories were about Budgets - first the Victorian Budget was handed down, then the Federal Budget. Every Budget covers a broad range of issues, and every Budget is followed by many interviews with experts and...
Changes to the Family Law Act: what you need to know
This week, two pieces of legislation were passed by the Federal Government: The Family Law Amendment Act 2023 and Family Law Amendment (Information Sharing) Act 2023. The changes include new laws about how the Courts will make parenting orders in the...
Single Mother Wall of Honour 2024
We celebrated International Single Parents day by launching our Wall of Honour to pay tribute to all the amazing single mothers we know and have known! Congratulations to all the mums who were nominated - you can read the tributes, in alphabetical order, below....




