Consider the impact on a Child(ren) raised in a lone parent household.

Lone Income families can be defined as a family, which consists of one adult parent who is responsible for one or more children. The parent can be either the father or mother, although in the majority of cases, it is the mother who is left to bring up the children. There are several reasons for lone parent families in Britain, the most prominent being the rise in children born outside marriage, however the death of a spouse or simply a marriage break up are also reasons.

In a study carried out by Mack and Lansley titled "Poor Britain", it found that there are certain factors which can predict the risk at which a person or family is, from poverty. It found that couples are 10% likely to be in poverty, couples with children are 19% likely to be in poverty, but an astounding 50% of lone parents are at risk of poverty. As mentioned previously, women are much more likely than men to be lone parents and therefore more likely to be in poverty than men. This is because married women are less likely than married men to be working, therefore if the marriage breaks up, the lone parent is left with no source of income.

Obviously for a lone parent, they have the responsibility to their child or children to provide as best as they can for them, however children of this decade, more so than the previous decades are much more demanding than ever. With the arrival of the internet, very few homes are without the technology of a PC with internet access, putting added pressure on the sole parent to provide one. This is because a child at school will come in daily contact with a computer, not only for internet access, but also for basic English. When the child does not have a PC at home, and the child's peers do, the child may feel inadequate at the fact that they simply cannot afford one, and in turn feel resentful at the parent for being in the situation that the find themselves in.