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In Brussels, most single-parent families are headed by women. Being a single mother often means being poor with single-parent households four times more likely to fall below the poverty line. But support is there with the Single Parents' House.

In Brussels, most single-parent families are headed by women. Being a lone mother often means being poor with single-parent households four times more likely to fall below the poverty line. But support is there with the Single Parents' House.

Re: The Brussels Single-Parent House

Parental burnout is still little understood and poorly diagnosed, in large part because sufferers often hide their feelings out of shame and guilt. Symptoms are similar to depression and commonly present as irritability with the children. Stress and fatigue are part of being a parent, but become pathological in around 5% of parents, most commonly mothers. Social media, with its images of apparently perfect families, has a part to play too.

This programme by Swiss broadcaster SRG SSR is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative from European public service media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR, RTBF and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

When parents crack

Parental burnout is still little understood, with sufferers often hiding their feelings out of shame.

Parental burnout

Can we love our children too much? Is it ever OK to regret having children? And are we doomed to pass on our own childhood traumas? These issues around parenthood are difficult to address openly.

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Re: The Brussels Single-Parent House

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