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A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
Cohabiting couples who have children often get married. One study found that children born of parents who cohabit are 90% more likely to end up living in households with married parents than children born to single mothers. 67% of unmarried Hispanic mothers are expected to marry, while 40% of African American mothers are expected to marry. [43]
These girls, ages 8–12, were asked to take images from the media to illustrate what they thought girls and women should or should not do. The sources of media used by the girls in the study included images from: newspapers, magazines, photos of advertisements (in subways, elevators, etc.), television, and Internet.
Single motherhood doesn’t have to mean inherently worse outcomes for those moms and their children. I earned an excellent education and work in public policy because I was raised by a single mom ...
"It's just me, my girls and my mom, and that's what I was striving for every day." When she speaks with single mothers who are struggling to get things done, Turner makes sure to make one thing ...
Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. So why are some women choosing to do […]
In the United States, 80% of single parents are mothers. Among this percentage of single mothers: 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated, 1.7% are widowed, 34% of single mothers never have been married. [13] This is in contrast to earlier decades, where having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not ...
Jana Kramer's new country album touches on everything from motherhood, past breakups, to jamming out with your favorite girls.