Translation of "lone parent s allowance " (English → French) :

Rather, the concept of a family must also include, for example, lone parents, parents of the same sex and other arrangements that people now choose for leading their lives.

Single-parent families now account for an average of 14% of all families with children (in the United Kingdom the proportion is 23% and in Spain and Greece 8% and 7% respectively) and 90% of lone parents are women.

(2) The second strand of policy followed by Member States refers to the possibility to combine the receipt of the benefit entitlement with earnings from work (labour supply channel) by allowing the following: (i) combination of part-time or full-time job with partial unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance (Spain, Ireland, Portugal) or with a wide range of other social benefit schemes such as normal and specific unemployment benefits, RMI, lone-parent allowance, ASS and disabled adult allowance (France); and (ii) incentives to start-up business or to encourage self-employment by allowing to receive the unemployment benefit in a ...[+++] lump sum payment (Spain).

For example, in France, lone-parents are granted the Allocation de Parent Isolé (API) which provides a minimum familial income to those lone-parents having or expecting to have children.

(e) Allows for the specific needs of special categories of persons such as unaccompanied minors, the disabled, the elderly, lone parents accompanied by underage children, persons who have been tortured, exploited, or sexually abused, pregnant women, and the physically or mentally ill.

This single working mother, a lone parent, might easily be in a better situation than another single woman and mother, who has no child care facility to send her children to and who has no job to go to.