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Single Motherhood

What Single Moms Deserve On Mother's Day

Tracy Schorn | Posted 05.12.2013 | Divorce
Tracy Schorn

Mother's Day has a way of making single moms feel quite alone. It's often seen as a celebration of the traditional nuclear family. Of the legacy that comes from being partnered, of having a spouse say, "Wow, I'm so happy we made these kids together."

What I've Learned About Motherhood By Being a Single Mom

Jessica Ashley | Posted 05.10.2013 | Parents
Jessica Ashley

I have officially held the title of single parent for twice the amount of time I was a married mom. It has not been easy. Or simple. Or all bliss. But I love the family I've made, the home we've created and the kind of mother I am always becoming.

How To Celebrate Mother's Day As A Single Mom

Posted 05.10.2013 | Divorce

By Mandy Walker for YourTango.com Celebrating Mother's Day as a single mom is not the same as when you were a married mom. For starters, whether...

The Perfect Mother's Day Gift For A Single Mom

Posted 05.08.2013 | Divorce

Stumped on what to get the woman who does it all -- a.k.a. a single mom -- this Mother's Day? Good news: HuffPost Divorce readers have you covered...

Single Mom Care Package

Honoree Corder | Posted 05.08.2013 | Divorce
Honoree Corder

If you've ever been through a divorce or bad breakup involving kids, you're way ahead in this situation, but if not, and you're like most people, you won't have the first clue what to say ("I'm sorry?" "Congratulations?").

LOOK: Percentage Of Single Mothers Is Much Higher In This Demographic

The Huffington Post | Christina Huffington | Posted 05.02.2013 | Women

The rate of single motherhood, which has been steadily increasing since the 1940s, has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a report by the U.S. ...

Warning: Jill Scott's Thoughts On Single Motherhood May Offend You

Posted 04.04.2013 | Black Voices

Don't let Jill Scott's strong vocals and independent spirit fool you. The Grammy-winning singer-turned-actress says that when it comes to being a mom,...

The 30 Best Things About Being A Single Parent

Posted 03.21.2013 | Divorce

Happy National Single Parent Day! Did you even know it was a holiday? In 1984, President Ronald Reagan officially designated March 21 as the day t...

Single Mothers Aren't the Problem Today, Absent Fathers Are

Cara Lemieux | Posted 03.31.2013 | Parents
Cara Lemieux

Oh wait -- did we all forget how most moms (referenced in these articles) become single moms? Right, at one point there was a man... and then there wasn't. But for some reason (which infuriates me), the headlines don't typically frame the story that way.

Republican State Senator Makes Racially Charged Claim About Planned Parenthood

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 01.25.2013 | Politics

A controversial Republican legislator, infamous for his extreme anti-abortion views, is again making headlines after an interview on a conservative Ch...

A Day in the Life of a Woman in Construction

Nontraditional Employment for Women | Posted 03.26.2013 | Impact
Nontraditional Employment for Women

2012-11-13-jrlogo300x60.gif Picture, if you will, a 23-year-old woman, a single mother of a 1-year-old daughter, struggling to make it -- living in the Bronx and surviving thanks to subsidized housing, public assistance, and the support of her family. That was me in 1995, when I first heard about NEW.

Are Single Moms 'Not Equipped To Cope' With Sons?

Posted 01.11.2013 | Divorce

It seems like the internet can't stop talking about single mothers lately. It all started in early January, when single mother Pamela Gwyn Kripke ...

What Experts Don't Understand About My Daughter

2012-07-03-slatelogo.jpg | Posted 11.28.2012 | Parents

Written by Cristina Nehring for Slate If you’d told me five years ago that I was soon to bear a disabled child with blood cancer -- for whom I’...

The Unexpected Lesson My Second Husband Taught Me

Ann Bauer | Posted 11.11.2012 | Divorce
Ann Bauer

This parenting thing isn't about fairness, and the moment a divorce occurs, children are forever in a no-win place. They cannot make choices about whom they love according to some balance sheet.

Single Mothers in Poverty: A Symptom of Failed Economic Policies

Riane Eisler | Posted 10.31.2012 | Parents
Riane Eisler

It's high time we change the conversation about both the economy and single mothers.

Motherhood Is a Singular Experience

Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.09.2012 | Parents
Tamar Abrams

The country would be better served by ensuring that all mothers are supported as they raise future generations of Americans. Ultimately, motherhood is an act of love and faith in the future.

Bringing Light, Making Peace

Lisa Schultz | Posted 07.17.2012 | Impact
Lisa Schultz

On Friday night, I land in Sierra Leone and the first important thing I do will be to gather my son Tejan in my arms and hope that this is last time he will be greeting me, instead of accompanying me, to Africa.

Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied And Exhausted

Staceyann Chin | Posted 07.12.2012 | Gay Voices
Staceyann Chin

Last year, on Mother's day, I found out I was pregnant. I can hardly believe it's been a year since that gleeful Mother's Day. Only a year later, and life is a completely different shade of tumbling. I have become the mother of a rather scrumptious little girl.

Octomom: Her Children, Her Choice and Our Responsibility

Roland C. Warren | Posted 07.08.2012 | Parents
Roland C. Warren

Suleman's story exposes the fact that for the last few decades, our culture has been constructing a modern-day "Tower of Babel" in celebration of "personal choice," especially when it comes to sex.

I'm Sorry

Lisa Schultz | Posted 07.07.2012 | Impact
Lisa Schultz

There are many things I forget these days -- those that I remember are significant, usually because they touched me in some way, caused me to think, to question, and possibly to change.

Turning Boys Into Men: 4 Ways to Expand Your Son's "Boy Power"

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 06.30.2012 | Parents
Dr. Peggy Drexler

We as a culture have held fast to the idea that we need to protect the boundaries between male and female. This is wrong, and even dangerous. Instead, we need to be reframing the discussion, and asking: What makes a boy a boy?

The Peace Project

Lisa Schultz | Posted 06.10.2012 | Impact
Lisa Schultz

The Peace Project is not just a social movement currently doing work in Sierra Leone, Africa -- it's a very personal project and I've seen (and experienced) in the most tangible and fantastic ways the power it has to transform lives, starting with my own.

Jumping the Fence

Kathleen Fordyce Rohan | Posted 06.09.2012 | Women
Kathleen Fordyce Rohan

Did I do everything I could to help him? Why do I get to live, blessed so far to be disease free? Why am I the lucky one who gets to enjoy the feel of our son's little arms around my neck?

What Successful Women Can Share

Christine Eads | Posted 05.20.2012 | Women
Christine Eads

As a single mother to a nine-year old son, I'd like to think I'm a role model for him by demonstrating that a woman can be independent and create her own career.

Something Like A Family

Gila Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012 | Women
Gila Shapiro

At some point, I don't remember exactly when, I stopped replacing my fraying lacy underwear with new lacy underwear and instead bought packs of three or five single color elastic fit.