Many single moms feel like they carry so much responsibility that there's no room left for the fun parts of parenting. Being a single mother is one of the hardest jobs. Some choose this difficult ...

Earlier this year, the results of a poll that questioned more than 500 low-to-middle-income Black single mothers of school-aged children were released. The groundbreaking survey's results found that a ...

Single-mother families make up one in five American families with children under 18. I grew up in one of them. Solo parenting is no easy feat. Even though my Philadelphia childhood was filled with ...

These issues date back to the mid-1980s at the latest, and the passage of the welfare reform bill in 1996 that "ended welfare as we knew it." The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Single ...

The narrative of single Black mothers had become a narrow, damaging and quite frankly a tired depiction of women to be pitied. On the contrary, we know that all mothers have varied and rich stories ...

Mothers raising children on their own post on social media to celebrate themselves and other single moms, drawing criticism from others who feel they should leave the holiday alone. “Single moms… ...

Being a single parent is undoubtedly hard. However, not all single parents are treated equally. Here are three reasons why. Being a single parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world, regardless of ...

I recently received a pitch that began: Single moms are superheroes — twice the work, twice the stress, twice the tears. I experienced the same cringey reaction that I experience whenever anyone ...

I’m a single mother of what doctors and insurance companies cheerfully call an “advanced maternal age,” which makes me sound like an appliance with an expired warranty. In reality, I’m a 42-year-old ...

Do I worry that as a single mum I’m more likely to raise a toxic boy? It’s complicated. I am of course terrified of my son – who does not yet own a phone – getting online and being fed the sort of ...