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What are the challenges for single fathers?

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Among the 2 million single-parent families counted in France, 18% are made up of fathers living alone with their children according to INSEE © Shutterstock / fizkes

By: Amélie Beaucour

1 min

Among the 2 million single-parent families counted in France, according to the latest figures from INSEE, 18% are made up of fathers living alone with their children.

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If they are still very much in the minority, their number increases from year to year, from 300,000 in 2017, the "solo" fathers are today 350,000. Little studied or little taken into account, their situation is surprising.

In the land of stereotypes, involvement in the education and life of one's children would still be maternal.

In reality, custody of children is mostly entrusted to the mother.

Widowed, divorced, separated, assumed choice or suffered condition, the profile of “solo” dads is varied.

How do they manage daily life alone at the head of their family?

What bonds do they weave with their children?

Are their difficulties the same as “solo” mothers?  

With :

Alexandra Piesen,

 sociologist, associate researcher at

at the University of Paris 

Nicolas Peraldi

, psychologist-psychoanalyst in Nantes, co-host of the group “Paroles de pères” set up by the Caf de Loire Atlantique and the School for Parents and Educators 

Ana Volsy

, secretary general of the

which aims to facilitate mutual aid between single-parent families

And the testimony of a solo father, Christophe father of three children and who lost his wife 7 years ago, he confided in his story at the microphone of 

.

--- TEM Solo Dad (Cut-5'52)

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