After becoming a single parent when she was five months pregnant and had a 15-month-old child Elizabeth Evans was threatened with homelessness, had to use foodbanks, and feared for her mental health and security. The 37-year-old said that when her marriage ended in 2018 she didn't realise how much stigma and shame still existed around poverty and being a single parent.
With one in three children living in poverty in Wales figures are even higher for children of single parents. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Poverty in Wales Report 2020 found single parents have the highest in-work poverty rates of all households.
It hadn't been something Elizabeth, a former teaching assistant, had planned for. Nearly one in 10 parents are 'very likely' to need foodbanks with 88% saying their monthly food shop has increased in price over the past three months. You can read more about that here.
