The resilience and resourcefulness you model every day are the most powerful lessons your teen will ever receive. This guide provides practical, actionable advice to help you navigate the teen years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Father's Day can be a poignant and challenging holiday for single moms, and it can feel like there's no escaping it. Society's emphasis on a traditional family unit can serve as a reminder of an ...

Mothers raising children on their own post on social media to celebrate themselves and other single moms, drawing criticism from others who feel they should leave the holiday alone. “Single moms… ...

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 ...

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 ...