Single Parent Challenges Quotes

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

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I was raised by a single mother.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

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

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.