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Lone Parenthood Over the last 25 years, one of the biggest changes in the family has been the growth of the lone-parent family. Britain now has one of the highest proportions of lone-parent families in Europe, and the percentage of such families is still growing today. About 23% of all families with dependent children are lone-parent and women head 90% of those. Also more than 21% of all dependent children in Britain actually live in lone-parent families compared to 7% in the early seventies. There are a number of factors that explain the increase in lone-parent families in society today. The main causes of lone-parent families are through divorce, death, and separation and in some cases; people never get married at all. Divorce is the legal termination of a marriage, but this is not the only way that marriages and homes can become 'broken'. Homes and marriages may be broken...

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