Solo mothers: the forgotten ones by the public authorities?

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2 min

“The life of a single mother is a life in apnea, without oxygen”;

such is the observation of Nathalie Bourrus, journalist and solo mother.

In France, 82% of single-parent families are headed by a woman.

Often responsible for all the evils, these mothers live a daily struggle juggling between work, financial difficulties and societal injunctions.

How to get your head out of the water?  

Publicity

With:

Nathalie Bourrus

, reporter, columnist for

FranceInfo

and author of

Maman solo, les oubliées de la République

(Pygmalion Editions)


A testimony from a solo mother collected by

Raphaëlle Constant


Report at Marina, mother of Gabrielle, 7 years old.

Separated from her daughter's father for more than 6 years, Marina alone manages education, shopping, household maintenance, or even trips to school, bathing, bedtime ...

A life of 2000 at the time of a solo mom from which she was inspired to create her start-up Noö, an online expert platform to support single parents on all subjects of single parenthood.

Raphaelle Constant spent the evening at home, in the Parisian suburbs.

And a report

by

Inès Edel-Garcia,

a taxi driver in Abidjan in Ivory Coast

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