Radical proposals for unmarried families challenging
Treoir believes the proposals in the Law Reform Commissions’s Report “Legal Aspects of Family Relationships” are radical and far reaching. … Download Press Release
Year: 2010
December 2010
1. One-Parent Family Payment – The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 2010
2. CSO Statistics – Yearly Summary 2009
3. Child Maintenance Enforcement Orders
4. Growing Up in Ireland
5. Family Figures: Family Dynamics and Family Types in Ireland, 1986 – 2006
6. FAMILY LAW CASES
There should be no disincentives to family formation
Treoir’s recommendations on financial disincentives to cohabitation and marriage… Download Press Release
An exciting new magazine especially for teen parents
The second edition of The Young Parent Survival Guide, containing great information for young mums and dads, has been produced by Treoir (the National Information Service for unmarried parents)… Download Press Release
Dont Panic
Treoir urges parents who are receiving One Parent Family Payment not to panic following the publication of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 yesterday… Download Press Release
Newsletter Sept 2010
Topics Include: New Publication – Young Parents Survival Guide(Ed2) Changes to the Back to Education Scheme for 2010/11 Statistics.
Fathers still haven’t woken up!
Many fathers mistakenly believe that because their name is on their child’s birth cert they have rights to their child… Download Press Release
Nearly 60% of all births to unmarried parents are to parents living at the same address
Nearly 60% of all births to unmarried parents are to parents living at the same address, clearly showing that cohabitation is on the rise. Yet these families, though treated in the same way as married couples by theDepartment of Social and Family Affairs, are seriously disadvantaged within the tax system if one of them chooses … Read more
Newsletter March 2010
Guidelines for obtaining consent for non-emeregency treatment from parents of children and young people under the age of 18 years Teenage Pregnancy more opportunity than catastrophe, says study.
Children may get an Article in Bunreacht na hÉireann
At last, children may get an Article in Bunreacht na hÉireann specifically for them. Treoir, the national federation of services for unmarried parents and their children expressed their delight at the proposed visibility of children inthe Irish Constitution. In responding to the third report of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, Treoir … Read more