Personal Reflection on Journal Entry

Running head: SOCIAL WORK
Social Work
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1SOCIAL WORK
Personal reflection on journal entry
This article has been written by Teresa Grahame and Greg Marston. It was published in
the year 2012 (Grahame & Marston, 2012). This article had been published to identify the
policies that would be needed for single parents in Australia who are employed. I saw that this
reading is very much important for those single parents in Australia. I have found all those
interviews with 21 Brisbane based single mothers very much useful. I have gained the
knowledge that single mothers should be given independence and self-sufficiency to manage
both their work and children.
After going through this article, my first reaction is that single mothers must be provided
with income support. This is the most crucial fact for thriving of those single mothers within the
society. The propositions made in this article for payment to single mothers for 15 hours per
week are a very important fact indeed (Duncan & Edwards, 2013). The allowance for two week
break during Christmas and New Year break is also an appreciable fact for the benefits of those
single mothers.
There are some issues in the article that was very hard for me to understand. I have found
in this article that single mothers are seen as unemployed and this is something that should not
be. Therefore, organizations must bring in new policies that will support single mothers for
overall scenario. I do not think that it is acceptable to view these single mothers as unemployed
as they are giving their best efforts for the company along with managing their children. The
unemployment benefits should also be given to single mothers in the form of Newstart
Allowance (NSA) (Cook, 2012). The women who were interviewed in this paper almost had no
experience of anything. I suppose that welfare-to-work reforms would surely be appreciable for
all single mothers in Australia.