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Feminomics: Red v. Blue Family Paradigms

June Carbone | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Red States, Single Mothers, Bristol Palin Abstinence, Red State/Blue State, Unintended Pregnancies, Blue States, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Politics News
June Carbone

The areas of the country that have embraced the new "blue" model of family life have seen teen birth and divorce rates plummet. In contrast, "red" marriage promotion, which tries to control sex rather than childbearing, is a proven failure.

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The Women of Troy: Upstate Girls

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Photography, Women of Troy, In Verse, Poverty, Upstate Girls, Single Mothers, Radio, Lu Olkowski, Upstate New York, Studio 360, Documentaries, Barbara Ann Keannelly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, New York News
Wayne Trujillo

"No makeup, all attitude." The cast of Brenda Ann Kenneally's documentary photo project is comprised of single upstate mothers living beneath the radar of the mainstream American dream.

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What Ails Black Women, Part 3: Discrimination And Repercussions

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Black Women, Marriage, Michelle Obama, Single Mothers, Unemployment, Relationships, Activism, Incarceration, Dating, Racism, Race, Inequality, Happiness, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Racial inequality is both individual and collective. The crushing levels of incarceration and police repression that Black men endure take a toll on Black communities and families as well.

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Arthur Delaney

Army Mom Confined To Base After Skipping Deployment To Care For Baby

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Court Martial, Fort Stewart Hunter, Afghanistan, Single Mothers, Military Parents, Georgia, Savannah, Military Policy, Military, Miss Deployment, Single Parents, Army Moms, Court-Martial, Deployment, Fort Stewart Hunter Army Airfield, Alexis Hutchinson, Politics News

Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. N...

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President Obama's Entrepreneurial Mindset

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Hawaii, Al Gore, Small Business, Entrepreneurial Time System, Toronto, Small Town, 1976 Election, George W. Bush, Single Mothers, President Obama, Entrepreneurs, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, David and Goliath, The Audacity to Win, Senators, Ellen, Political Organizing, Larry King, Lexington KY, Richmond Ky, John Kerry, William Jennings Bryan, Xerox, Steven Jobs, 2008 Campaign, The Strategic Coach, American College, Ibm, Wall Street, African Americans, Google, McNay Settlement Group, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Impossible Goals, Microsoft, Washington Insiders, Kentucky, Don McNay, Bill Gates, 2008 Election, Southern Politics, David Plouffe, Entrepreneurial, Main Street, Structured Settlements, Ross Perot, Vanderbilt University, Jay Leno, George Wallace, Dan Sullivan, Oprah, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Tyra Banks, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, David Lettterman, Nssta, Business News
Don McNay

I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.

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The Ugly Truth: Poverty in America

Irasema Garza | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Women, Welfare System, Single Mothers, Poverty, Women's Issues, Welfare Reform, TANF Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Women and Politics, Tanf, Working Moms, Politics News
Irasema Garza

As bleak as the poverty figures appear, the Census Bureau's numbers likely underestimate the depth and scale of the problem. Given the scale of the problem facing us, we must address the structural issues that frustrate our efforts to help poor Americans.

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The Devil They Know: Biography of an American Inmate

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Addiction, Single Mothers, Child Abuse, US Poverty, Recidivism, Prison, Violence, Alcohol Abuse, American Prisoner Description, American Prison Inmates, Prison Inmates, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

A system which punishes the poor for reacting unexceptionally to their poverty has created a criminal class which views prison as a sort of career.

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The False Premises of "Welfare Reform"

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Mothers, US Poverty, Welfare Reform, Welfare, Economic Recession, Children's Health, Politics News
Louise Marie Roth

There is growing evidence that the neediest families are falling through the welfare cracks under the new regime, especially in this weak economy.

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Grandfathers: Stepping into the Lives of Boys

Peggy Drexler | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Single Mothers, Single Parents, Single Parenting, Single Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Grandfathers, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

As more women raise boys alone, the fathers of those women are moving to a different place in boy's lives. They can fill the missing pieces in ways that no one outside the family can.

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"Avoid Marriage," Advises Atlantic Writer

Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Singled Out, Nation Magazine, Friends, Longevity, Children, Single Mothers, Matrimania, Divorce, Singles, Media, Myths, Atlantic Magazine, Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow Show, Happiness, Marriage, Singlism, Health, Families, Love, Fathers, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.

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A Call for Some Much Needed Sisterhood on This Planet

Linda Adams | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Women-and-Hurricane-Katrina, Developing World, Single Mothers, Waxman-Markey, Greenland, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Poor Nations, Extreme Weather, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming, Green News
Linda Adams

Global warming affects our entire planet but it has a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, especially women.

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The Buyers' Market for Role Models

Peggy Drexler | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Role Models, Sons, Single Motherhood, Single Mothers, Children, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

The demand for role models might exceed the supply. But they are there. The job for all single mothers is to put their sons in a position to find them.

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Fathers Matter "Now" More Than Ever

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Poverty, Rape, Jerry Lewis, Crime, Single Mothers, Gloria Steinem, Politically Correct, Thomas Jefferson, Sigmund Freud, Male Influence, Gen Robert E Lee, Bill Cosby, Father's Day, Barack Obama, Fatherless Boys, Pragmatic, Mental Illness, Charles Manson, Clinton, Child Abuse, George Washington, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pop-Psyche Culture, Fatherless Children, Billy the Kid, Jack the Ripper, Nario Cuomo, Mark Twain, Happy Father's Day, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

Male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it.

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A Mother like Sotomayor or Spelling: a Saint or a Sinner?

Darryle Pollack | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Tori Spelling, Mothers, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Single Mothers, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Sonia Sotomayor Style, Living News
Darryle Pollack

I suspect Celina Sotomayor and Candy Spelling don't just have matching initials and famous daughters in common. I suspect they have something else in common: with each other, with me, and with all mothers. They're not perfect.

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Is God Stupid?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Abortion, Single Mothers, Unemployment, God, Imprisonment, Unemployment Rate, The Envirinment, Dropout-Rates, Prayer, Black, Faith, High School Dropouts, Aids, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Benedict, Karl Marx, Islam, Jews, Episcopalians, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Green News
Michael Henry Adams

Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...

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Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob

Janet Carlson | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Competence, Women, Ballroom Dancing, Relationships, Single Mothers, Dating, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Ideas, Style News
Janet Carlson

Being a self-reliant woman surely doesn't mean I have to get good at everything. That would be no fun at all.

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From One Single Mom to Another

Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Single Moms, Nadya Suleman, Motherhood, California Octuplets, Foster Parents, Single Mothers, Children, Style News
Tamar Abrams

Stop giving interviews -- you're turning into a freak show. And for God's sake, teach your kids that there is more to life than giving birth.

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Morality, Bioethics, Ethics, Octuplets, Single Mothers, Mothering, Giving Birth, Single Motherhood, California Octuplets, Parenting, Octuplets Born in California, Childbirth, Parenthood, Living News
Valerie Tarico

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

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The Obama Presidency and the Triumph of the Single Parent

Jason Notte | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Children of Single Parents, Obama's Inauguration, Ann Dunham, Single Parents, Obama Inauguration, Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Children, Mothers and Sons, Mothers, Single Mothers, Kids, Moms, Families, Love, Family, Living News
Jason Notte

Obama and his mother benefited not only from their own unique gifts, but from the willingness of Dunham's parents to assist in the process.

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Hell Has Officially Frozen Over... I Agree with Ann Coulter on Something

Keli Goff | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Whoopie Goldberg, Single Mothers, Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter Barbara Walters, Ann Coulter View, Ann Coulter the View, The View, Ann Coulter on the View, Right-Wing Ideology, Ann Coulter Whoopie Goldberg, Media News
Keli Goff

Coulter's assertion that single motherhood, not race, is the real indicator when it comes to socio-political issues, like crime, may be one of the least racist things she has ever said.

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Ann Coulter on The View (VIDEO)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

Coulter's pure, unalloyed hypocrisy was on full display on The View when a couple of smart women asked her to explain some of her bogus assumptions on single motherhood.

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A Response to Ann Coulter

Mikki Morrissette | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Ann Coulter Book, Single Mothers by Choice, Children of Single Parents, Ann Coulter Single Mothers, Ann Coulter, Single Parent Home, Single Motherhood, Two Parent Home, Ann Coulter Parenting, Choosing Single Motherhood, choicemoms.org, Choice Moms, Single Mothers, Single Parents, Ann Coulter Today Show, Coulter Single Mothers, Living News
Mikki Morrissette

People who proactively choose to become a parent on their own -- such as the tens of thousands of Choice Moms (a.k.a. single mothers by choice) -- are not doing a disservice to society.

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Bad to the Bone

Louise Sloan | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Single Moms, Ann Coulter Matt Lauer, Knock Yourself Up, Al Mohler, Ann Coulter, Single Mothers, Today Show, Albert Mohler, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Single Moms by Choice, Louise Sloan, Poverty, Gay Parenting, Single Parenting, Single Motherhood, Education, Birth Control, Gay Marriage, Living News
Louise Sloan

Just as my life was getting duller and more traditional, along comes Ann Coulter on the Today Show to tell me that as a single mom, I'm responsible for almost every societal problem we have.

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Why Are American Women Having More Children?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Marriage, Women, Fertility, Single Mothers, Feminism, Family, Teenage Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Americans, Children, Kids, Health, Giving Birth, Birth Rates, Teen Sex, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Even if the declining employment rates for women don't reflect general support for "opting out," the cultural elevation of women who choose to stay home with their kids is palpable.

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Hearing Ann Dunham

Ann Medlock | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Single Mothers, HuffPost Election Reaction, Ann Dunham, Election Reaction, Living News
Ann Medlock

Me, I'm looking for the first time at a President young enough to be one of my kids. Ann Dunham's son, Toot Dunham's grandson, is in fact younger than two of my sons.

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