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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