Single parenting
8 articles
Support for Single Parents
The research literature on single-parent families is more useful than the cultural conversation about them. Decades of work, including landmark review...
Single Parenting: Specific Challenges and Strengths
It's 6:47 p.m., one kid is melting down about a sock, the other needs dinner, and there is no one walking through the door at 7. Single parenting is m...
How Single Parents Build a Stable Routine
The same family-routines research that benefits any household (Spagnola & Fiese, 2007; the broader Fiese family-rituals work) shows up even more stron...
Single Parenting and Daily Organization
The mental load of single parenting is the part that's most invisible from the outside and most exhausting from the inside. You're not just doing the...
Support Systems for Single-Parent Families
A persistent and unhelpful idea among single parents is that asking for help is a sign of failure. The data says nearly the opposite. Mavis Hetheringt...
Support Systems for Single-Parent Families
The most consistent finding in research on single-parent family outcomes is unsexy but important: it isn't single-parent status itself that determines...
How Single Parents Build a Stable Routine
Single parenting is partly a logistics problem. There's no one upstairs you can hand the baby to while you make the call. There's no second adult cove...
Single Parenting and Daily Organization
The day-to-day reality of single parenting is structurally harder than two-parent parenting in ways that aren't a personal failing. You are running bo...