Parenting Alone Quotes

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

I think it's very wrong to be an unwed mother. You give your child the stigma of illegitimacy.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

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

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

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

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It's just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don't know if I could do it on my own.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

There was a feeling I had when I got pregnant and decided to keep the baby, and I knew I wasn't going to be with the baby daddy, and I was really toying with what my identity would be.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

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

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

It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused and efficient with my little scraps of time that I do have.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

My mom was a single parent.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.