9 Amendments of Eva-Britt SVENSSON related to 2011/2049(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas many Member States still fail to recognise and support different and diverse family models and situations, and whereas the predominant two-parent model is becoming less frequent, and single mothers are becoming increasingly significant as a group in all advanced and industrialised countries, whether as a result of divorce, separation or never having been marriedour societies, and whereas there is therefore a need to respond to this new reality by adapting policies,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas in some Member States single parents are still socially stigmatised and the role of informal networking in their integration should be recognispublic policies in many Member States still are not adapted to different family models and situations, and oftentimes single parents are still socially and economically disadvantaged,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, as a result of different public policies and different legal statuses (divorced, separated, unmarried or widowed), single motherparents experience different situations and benefit from different types of allocation,
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas career pressures are the highest between the ages of 25 and 40, when children are still young and require more care and time from their parents; whereas school and working hours are often incompatible; whereas there is often a lack of quality, affordable care facilities, which is often the biggest obstacle and constraint in combining family and professional life,
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
(1) Member States need to adopt public policies, including educational policies, care provision, health policies, employment policies, social security systems, and housing policy, in order to support the needs and realities of different families, and in particular taking into account the reality of one-parent families;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 2 (new)
(2) Calls for increased gender-focused strategies, which can provide a greater understanding of the relationship between gender and poverty and an investment in projects that take on the needs of one- parent families;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls for a general shortening of the working time, in order to enable all persons, including one-parent families, to better combine work and private life;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on Member Sates to review their housing policies, in order to ensure that single parent household have access to quality and affordable housing;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Member States to guarantee equal treatment and to maintain a high quality of life for all children regardless of the marital status of their parents, by providing universal allowances in order to not pass poverty on to the child;