Single parents in lockdown

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Living under lockdown is challenging for everyone, but for hundreds of millions of single parents around the world, it can be a terrifying ordeal. It’s not only emotionally draining, but can also be financially crippling, as Tamasin Ford has been finding out. She speaks to Sarah Cawley who delivers lunches to people who can’t leave their homes; she's from One Parent Family Scotland. We also hear from single mums, Fatia Islam in Paris and New Yorker, Thea Jaffe. Victoria Bensen, CEO of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families in England and Wales talks about the mental and financial strain on single parents and Neferteri Plessy, founder of the charity Single Moms Planet paints a picture of lockdown in Santa Monica, in the US.

Picture of Neferteri Plessy and one of her children, cr Neferteri Plessy.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.
0:06.7	Living under lockdown is challenging for everyone, but for hundreds of millions of single parents around the world, it can be a terrifying ordeal.
0:16.1	It's just a really kind of scary time because I don't have anyone to kind of say, everything's going to be
0:22.9	okay, we're going to get through this together. It is really, really overwhelming. And it's not
0:28.5	just emotions. The lockdown is taking its toll on. I have only one salary, you know. If I lost
0:36.3	my job, I think it's going to be, this is going to be very, very
0:40.6	difficult. We hear how single parents are coping, living under lockdown. That's all in Business
0:47.0	Daily from the BBC.
0:51.8	Mom, can I eat some of it myself? It's the end of week six of the lockdown here in the UK.
1:00.3	My two, aged three and five, are ready to hug their friends and family again.
1:07.3	Daddy!
1:13.7	So far it's meant hours on the trampoline,
1:17.2	a bit of homeschooling and walks in the forest.
1:27.9	But isolation, as a single parent, without another adult around, is tough.
1:33.7	So we're just going round the corner.
1:37.0	Our next delivery will be... Who is it? Evon.
1:39.9	Sarah Corley delivers lunches to people who can't get out of their homes in Glasgow.
1:45.7	She works for one-parent family Scotland.
1:48.0	Right, Rub, so we are getting our masks back on, our gloves and our hand sanitizer.
1:58.8	She's a single parent herself to 11-year-old Rubin.
2:03.0	I feel a bit overwhelmed, to be honest.
2:05.7	Unless you are a single parent, you don't really understand it, you don't get it.
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