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'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world.
Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.
I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.
My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
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.
Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.
Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.
The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she's been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.
I love being a parent, and when I'm gone even 2 1/2 days for a tournament, I'm forcing Janna to be a single parent.
The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
Congress wasn't built for members like me. For those of us who have young children, which is a minority, there's definitely the built-in assumption of a two-parent model... There is no template for how to do this in my situation as a single mom.
Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.