Subsidies to single-parent families on welfare may be revived

Wednesday 21st October, 12:52 AM JST

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pointofview at 12:05 PM JST - 21st October

But Ive read that if you are a single parent father you dont receive any benefits. Only if you are a mother. This is coming from a Japanese father.
tokyokawasaki at 12:29 PM JST - 21st October

Single parent benefits are only paid to mothers!!!! No way, that can't be true can it?
dolphingirl at 01:34 PM JST - 21st October

So, if you have 3 kids--that's only an extra 22,000 a month?! You'd be screwed!
OneForAll at 06:03 PM JST - 21st October

Where is the other parent?
ThonTaddeo at 10:17 PM JST - 21st October

Where is the other parent?

Desperately trying to find his beloved children who've been abducted from him for the mother-only subsidy, presumably.

Well, OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but one of the 'left-behind' fathers in the news these days has claimed that when his wife died, her parents managed to get custody of his child and keep the kid from him in part because they wanted a subsidy like this one.
mikihouse at 06:51 AM JST - 22nd October

yup, in japan only mothers get subsidies. Nothing for single fathers.