All children are vulnerable, but children whose parents broke up might be even more exposed to a predator’s hooks. Nicole was molested by a 29 year old man when she was only 12. He crept into her life through her computer, gained her trust, used her vulnerablilities, and took advantage of her in all the […]
I’m packing up, consolidating my house and my heart for yet another iteration of self in this transformation from married woman to single mother; sifting through what to keep, what to sell, what to give away. I remember the faces of each of the women who came to my rented, crumbling home in those first […]
I don’t talk very often about the fact that my mom was a single mother for a while, back when I was a little thing. She was a waitress, and I’d spend the nights with Nanna and Herbert, and the days running around with my wonderful mom. I remember being scared of construction sites (I […]
I love reading Susan Palwick’s blogs. She’s a sci-fi writer,volunteer hospital chaplain, and random do-gooder whose words often spark some wild hope and debate within my own, tumultuous soul.
Please read today’s entry over at Improbable Optimisms: Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good:
This week at the hospital, I learned that dying, or learning that you’re going […]
If you’re a single mother because you were in a bad relationship, there’s a good chance your baggage has a tendency not to just open up at inopportune times, but to actually explode all over the place in an extravagant display of dirty laundry. I don’t know that I’ve ever written about this, but towards […]
I don’t usually comment on the sensational headlines. But tonight, my head and heart keep screaming: WHY?
Why are all three of that single mother’s children dead?
If you know someone is overwhelmed and isn’t coping, you get her help. You don’t watch a woman with three children push an empty stroller down the street […]
The blogosphere is filled with the holiday cheer of… bling… I mean… bells… Salvation Army bells ringing in the shopping centers… tons of gift giveaways for the holidays…
Oh. Hang on. I’m conflicted. Is it better to give, or receive?
Why not do both this year?
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An article came out over the AP wire yesterday that has me sad and worried. Abuse Risk Seen Worse as Families Change, the article declares. ABC News has picked up the story, with a dramatic photo of a young, tatooed mother mourning at her small son’s grave.
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Good Morning America published a story about pedophiles targeting single mothers in online dating sites. Chilling. One woman says a man she met and married through just such a service only married her to get to her daughter.
Single parents must always put their children’s safety and welfare above their own needs. Just because a guy […]
File this under the category of, “As if Divorce Wasn’t Hard Enough”
Seems that some parts of the world will automatically register a newborn baby with a divorcee’s ex-husband’s paternity if the child is born within 300 days of the divorce. The only way to reverse this is to get the ex to testify in court that […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
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