Traduction de «mère célibataire » (Français → Anglais) :

What it means to be part of this Union of Europeans – what it is the farmer in Lithuania has in common with the single mother in Zagreb, the nurse in Valetta or the student in Maastricht.

5. Calls on the Member States to encourage associations working in support of single mothers to provide training courses aimed at facilitating employment for single mothers and helping to raise their self-esteem; in this connection, calls on the Member States to encourage the setting up of family centres providing temporary accommodation, where single mothers can obtain advice and education; encourages the national authorities to include specific training programmes for single mothers in order to facilitate their access to the labour market, and to collaborate with associations seeking to achieve this objective;

2. Calls on the Commission and the Members States to support the work of all organisations and informal networks working for single mothers, especially in countries where there is little or no specific support for single-parents families; this support should not replace welfare state support in protecting single mothers in the Member States, since, in view of the geographical and cultural differences existing between the Member States as regards State support to single mothers, no one model can fit all; calls on the Member-State authorities to include aid programmes for those affected;

3. Encourages the work of, and the exchange of best practices between, all organisations and informal networks working for single mothers, especially in countries where there is little or no specific support for single-parents families; encourages work designed to help single mothers; takes the view that these efforts should be aimed at enhancing the self-reliance and independence of single mothers, reducing their feelings of passivity and isolation, improving their social resourcefulness, improving their parenting skills and giving them easier access to information on employment rights and opportunities;

While the geographic distributions along with the age and socioeconomic divisions already make it difficult for single mothers to organise and lobby, the stigma that many view single motherhood with: a temporary situation that can change once a single mother finds a new partner makes it even more challenging to be a Single Mother in Europe.

6. Insists that the single mother in particular and also the single father will only have equal access to the labour market if major efforts are made to invest in affordable child care and after-school facilities in all public and subsidised private schools without which it is impossible for a single mother or father to reconcile a private and professional life;