Malta has the highest rate of jobless single parents in Europe, a situation that drastically affects their happiness, according to the latest study.

The island has 54 per cent of lone-parent families – defined as a parent living without a partner and children younger than 18 – out of the labour market, compared to 49 per cent in Ireland and 36 per cent in the UK.

“Employment plays an important role in parents’ subjective well-being and lone parents who are not working have the lowest life satisfaction and are the least happy,” Eurofound’s third Qualityof Life Survey found.

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