They saw what it costs to keep a household running alone. And that built empathy that runs deep. It's something psychologists ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

My friend “Andrea” was at the head of the trend toward a new kind of family. In an earlier post, “On NOT Waiting for Mr. Right,” she shared her perspective as a single woman who was five months ...