Joan Cusack Quotes

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

As a single parent, it can really be tough if the father's not in the picture much. Physically, emotionally and financially, you are trying to be there for your child and it can really get on top of you.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more.

With social distancing restrictions in place, many are finding themselves isolated from their support networks and suddenly navigating parenthood differently than they expected.

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent.

We already know that the experience of lockdown is a mixed bag. It is increasingly recognised that for many it can be hellish. Enforced leisure - if you are crippled with worry about debts, insecure job prospects, your family's health - is no holiday.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

If you want to stand with me as a single mom - and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do - please don't appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.

Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.

The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.