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 ...

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 ...

When Jane Mattes, a psychotherapist, was caring for her infant son in 1981, she realized she didn’t have a support system. “No one fully understands how hard it is to care for an infant until you are ...

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 ...

A newly released study of Birmingham’s guaranteed income program for single mothers shows the program was a success, the city announced this week. The Embrace Mothers guaranteed income pilot program, ...

Most of my 14 years of motherhood felt like Mother’s Day was spent alone, including some of the years I was married. Every May, when the second Sunday in May comes around, I think of the women who are ...

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 ...

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 ...