Finding grants for divorced women.
In addition to being an emotionally traumatic experience, divorce affects women from a financial standpoint in many ways. Without financial assistance, many women are not able to fully recover financially from the aftermath of a divorce. There are some limited opportunities to obtain grants for divorced women, many detailed in the References and Resources links.
Types
The most common types of grants available to women in the aftermath of a divorce include those that fund educational and job training, housing, child care and health services. These grants are found in the public and private sector.
Function
The underlying function of all of these grants is two-fold. First, these grants are designed to assist in providing a divorced woman at least some degree of financial stability. Second, these grants are intended to assist a divorced woman in achieving meaningful and lasting financial independence.
Education and Job Training
Education and job training grants for divorced women are offered through governmental programs and private sector agencies. These grants typically are designed not only to pay the costs specifically associated with education and training, but also to provide at least a nominal amount to assist in day-to-day living expenses. For example, a woman is hard pressed to participate in job training if she has children and is unable to pay for child care expenses. There are grants that take this into consideration.
Housing
Despite the fact that a majority of married women are working outside the home, a divorce many times results in a disproportionately negative impact on a woman's ability to earn a living. A woman might find herself trying to juggle responsibilities as the primary caretaker of the children from the marriage with the demands of working to earn a decent living.
Understanding these complications, there are grants available to assist women in obtaining housing and in paying for related costs (utility services, for example) in the immediate aftermath of a divorce.
Health
With some frequency, a woman (and the children born of the marriage) end up without sufficient health insurance coverage after a divorce. There are some grants available that assist a divorce woman either in paying for health insurance premiums or in directly paying for basic medical services for herself and her children.
Warning
Grants for divorced women are limited both in availability and in scope. Therefore, a woman in the midst of a divorce cannot assume that this type of financial aid will be available to her.
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