Visiting other households

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There is a caveat currently where children under the age of 18 can move between the homes of separated parents, the bubble idea is a sensible approach using this model to enable people to get some kind of physical interaction with one other, thus helping to improve well being in a safe and controlled way.

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I am a single parent who is juggling working from home and home-schooling a dyslexic secondary school child while trying to keep it all together. My normal support system (family) live out with my region. While regular video chats and telephone calls are helpful, the increase in using VC at work is draining and I still feel really isolated. I see the benefits of the 'bubble' idea as it would allow others in a similar situation to me to be able to seek support from one other adult. Our children are also suffering, my daughter has described it as 'worse than being homesick'.

Couples who live apart are struggling too. Distance should not be a factor where healthy people are concerned and so long as neither household contain habitants who are shielding. If you are travelling to see each other door to door in a car, this should pose no impact on others out with this bubble. Similar to the caveat of the ability for children to spend time with the other parent, where they are separated. In my case my daughter's father does not want to spend time with her during lockdown, not even for the allowed 1hour daily exercise. So being a single parent, trying to 'do it all' is even harder in the current climate as we cant even seek a hug from a friend.

Emotional and physical support is lacking in the current situation and there is a real danger of mental ill health among the population. Single parents and those who live alone are ostracized for being single whether they have chosen to be or not. This is not an example of equality that I believe Scotland exudes.

These bubbles would need careful monitoring and In time the bubbles could be widened if the system was working. I realise it will take a considerable amount of time to get to a new kind of normal. But as a plea on behalf of single parents and single people, please consider us in your lockdown easing proposals and the impact of the current situation on our mental health.

by SingleMum38 on May 07, 2020 at 09:36AM

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