As long as there have been mothers, there have been single mothers. But in America, Black women have borne the stigma of single parenthood, whether we’re painted as “welfare queens”—a sensationalized ...

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 ...

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 ...

Single mothers are returning to dating in growing numbers, driven by family support, shifting cultural attitudes, and a clearer sense of their own needs.

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 ...

Getting to acknowledge it hasn’t been easy. For much of my life, my imagination morphed my diffident single-parent household into the big American family I saw on screens and read about in books. For ...

Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition. When Mia’s son ...

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 ...