In a candid conversation with TheGrio’s Natasha S. Alford, the writer and cultural critic reflects on motherhood, identity ...

Every new mother knows the moment. You gaze into your baby’s eyes and, besotted as you are, a nagging feeling takes root: Doubt. No matter how competent you are, the realization hits that you don’t ...

Trying to balance work, ambition, and parenting can be overwhelming under the best circumstances. For single parents, those ...

When 33-year-old Sandra Muthoni posted a photo of her son's graduation on Facebook, the first comment was not "Congratulations!" but "Where's the father?" She didn't flinch. "I've gotten so used to ...

Forty-four-year-old Cassandra Jackson recently returned home to Chicago from Memphis, Tenn., in hopes of upgrading her quality of life and beating the odds faced by so many single African-American ...

Does Toke’s path to motherhood outside marriage raise questions about how we view family and tradition today? Whether it’s through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), sperm donation, surrogacy, or even ...

Taraji P. Henson recently sat down with Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, on their “IMO” podcast to chat about single motherhood. The 54-year-old actress got candid about her experience ...

The food assistance program known as SNAP is a lifeline for parents who have lost their jobs and are struggling to afford groceries for their families.

There are 11 million single-parent families here in the U.S., and 80 percent of those are headed by a single mother. In fact, 40 percent of babies born in the U.S. are born to a mother who isn’t ...

My friend “Andrea” was at the head of the trend toward a new kind of family. In an earlier post, “On NOT Waiting for Mr. Right,” she shared her perspective as a single woman who was five months ...