Deirdre Deiner always knew she wanted to be a mother. Deirdre Diener is a 44-year-old marketing professional from Pennsylvania. To become a single mother by choice, she underwent in vitro ...

Twelve years ago when my daughter was born, my parents were there in the hospital room with me to welcome her. My mother cut the cord and my father announced, “It’s a girl!” The three of us exclaimed ...

Being a single parent isn’t easy. Still, some women are concluding that it’s their best option. There have always been parents who realized their partner (regardless of gender) wasn’t willing or able ...

I always pictured a two-parent household for my daughter. But a year after becoming a single mom, I realized it was the best thing that could've happened. I get to make parenting decisions by myself ...

When Jane Mattes, a psychotherapist, was caring for her infant son in 1981, she realized she didn’t have a support system. “No one fully understands how hard it is to care for an infant until you are ...

WINCHESTER, Va. — It's 6 a.m. and still dark outside. But Adrienne Rumley's two-bedroom apartment is alive with kinetic energy. A 4-month-old kitten darts around. A big dog patters back and forth.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steph Tharpe is a journalist who covers Black enterprise and culture. Almond’s efforts are particularly timely, as single mothers ...

It's been 13 years, and Connie Britton still remembers like it was yesterday: She'd recently become a mother to her son, Yoby, and had started working 12-hour days on what was, in her words, a “very ...

Mother’s Day gifts came early for 60 single mothers in the South Bay. The Single Mom Project gave each of those mothers $1,000 during its fifth annual honoring event on Saturday, May 3, at the ...