In 1918, Jessie Ashley, a feminist lawyer from a genteel New York family, mused on the end of the nuclear family. “I think it—the family—has been necessary and a good thing,” she wrote in a letter to ...

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I never pictured myself as a single mom. As a little girl, I knew I wanted to be a mother more than anything, but I also knew I never wanted to bring a child into a situation similar to my own. Coming ...

A single parent is someone who is unmarried, widowed, or divorced and not remarried. The single-parent household can be headed by a mother, a father, a grandparent, an uncle, or aunt. According to the ...

American family finances have weathered the fallout of the dot-com bubble, the Great Recession and a pandemic over the last 30 years. Despite these challenges and more, single-parent households as a ...

To determine the states with the most single-parent households, Stacker used data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 2021 five-year estimates. - Canva To determine the states with the most ...

I always pictured a two-parent household for my daughter. But a year after becoming a single mom, I realized it was the best thing that could've happened. I get to make parenting decisions by myself ...

Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status. In 1918, Jessie Ashley, a feminist lawyer from a genteel New ...

A parent kisses an infant on the head. The COVID-19 pandemic came with serious consequences for all families in the U.S., what with the transition of classrooms into the home, the constant threat of ...