Source: The Mercury, 24 October, 1998, p.10 Source: The Mercury, 24 October, 1998, p.10
ALMOST one in two single parents did not or could not actively seek paid work in June, official data revealed yesterday. Single fathers were more than twice as likely to be in work as single mothers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The proportion of one- parent families was rising in the 1990s and in June it reached 16%, or 787,300 families. The ABS Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Famil- ies report said just under one-third of the 61,000 single parents actively seeking paid work had been unemployed for a year or more. Meanwhile, 46% of single parents with children under 15 years at home were employed at the time of the survey. Nearly nine out of 10 single parents with dependent children under 15 were women - 20% were employed full-time and 24% part-time. Of the 60,800 single fathers, 53% worked full-time and 9% part- time. AAP
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