Gingerbread (charity) single parents return to the workplace. Gingerbread’s policy and research team works with elected representatives and other policy makers to influence policy and practice on issues relating to single parents. Gingerbread has campaigned against negative stereotyping of single parent families. Their ‘Let’s lose the labels’ and ‘Single parents: you’re brilliant’ campaigns both challenged stigma against single parents. Recently, Gingerbread has campaigned against government proposals to charge parents to use the Child Support Agency, and against cuts to Legal Aid proposed by the Welfare Reform Bill. The records of Gingerbread are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the
The Gingerbread Man he seems to fear obscurity more: "A little boy buys me with a cent . . . And removes an arm or leg or two, As down his throat I gently float, How can that hopeful know, Unless he is told, That he's stowed in his hold, The original John Dough." L. Frank Baum's "John Dough and the Cherub" (1906) and "The Road to Oz" (1909), also contained a gingerbread man named John Dough. Baum's John Dough is a life-sized creation and scared of being eaten, but ultimately sacrifices his hand to save a child's life. The Baum 1906 story