The assistance plans for single mothers (female parent who are going to bring up their children solely) are emerging because of increasing presence of single mothers in the societies. Many family trends, modern trends, are the reason for this increasing number of single motherhood. The most emerging trends which are in practice in many western countries like UK or USA are starter marriages and planning for family before marriage. Starter marriage is basically a process of some thing like a stimulated marriage where a couple decides to live together to know each other for a specific period of time. Problem arises when the relationship ends negatively and there is a child too. Involuntarily female has to adopt single motherhood if father is not agreed to pay assistance in bringing the kid.
Government provides support financially and psychologically to single mother in order to give them higher relief so that they may able to raise their children without facing many problems regarding income. There are many categories of grants for single mothers according to the requirements and the number of kids in a single mother based family. The grants for single mothers include loans, scholarships, lump sum amounts granting, home allowances, transport allowances, education scholarships for both for mother as well as for child in a case if mother has not completed her education, if the mother belongs to the job class then there is a facility provided for day care center for free or in the very cheaper rates.