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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Abbi Garton-Crosbie

Single parents face mental health disaster on front line of cost crisis

Satwat Rehman, CEO of One Parent Families Scotland, at the launch of Living Without A Lifeline. Picture: Gordon Terris

SINGLE parents who are on the front line of the cost of living crisis are facing a mental health catastrophe and are desperately calling for more support.

“You end up feeling like you’re nothing,” single mum-of-two Vickie from Dundee told a room at the launch of a report into living conditions of one-parent families and the issues facing them as prices rise and welfare support stalls.

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