My small family is rarely factored into scenarios, emergency or otherwise, where the dominant unit is assumed to be two parents at home, writes Alison Stine
. Coming on the heels of spring break, this makes at least a month that local children will not be in school. For many people, this means a loss of income. For single parents, it may also mean finding money to feed children who eat free or reduced-price meals at school, and with no other parent to pitch in, coming up with hundreds of dollars of sudden, unexpected childcare costs.
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