For women who become single parents, divorce or separation is also strongly correlated with other events including job loss (Gregg et al., Page and Stevens (2004) find a 41% reduction in children’s family income and an 18% drop in food consumption the year after divorce while six years or more later they find that the family income of children whose parent remains unmarried is 45% lower than it would have been had the divorce not occurred. In the United Kingdom, Jenkins (2009) finds that income dropped by 12% in the post-welfare reform period (from 2004 onwards) compared to 30% pre-reform. It has been argued that divorce increases women’s chance of being at the very top or very bottom of the income distribution and that “while some women successfully compensate for lost spousal earnings through child support, welfare, combining households, and increasing labour supply, others are markedly unsuccessful” (Ananat and Michaels, 2007).