Mum's the Word
'...Occasions will arise when there simply isn't enough money to put dinner on the table at night...’
'...The man started to ask me a series of questions I regarded as quite extraordinary - essentially about my sex life...'
Made by a single mother, ‘Mum's the Word’ looks at three single mothers, living on social security benefits or pensions, and explores how they maintain their families and survive – often below the “poverty line”. These women raise fundamental questions about being a single parent and about the Australian welfare system: departmental snooping/invasion of privacy; single parent/child relationships; sharing the parenting; where's the child care? And whose needs first – mine or the kids?
Description Source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
