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

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

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 ...

In this with theGrio’s Natasha S. Alford, cultural critic and author Jamila Lemieux opens up about her new book Black Single ...

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 ...

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More and more women in this country are choosing to have a baby without a partner. The organization Single Mothers By Choice has grown in recent years. The federal government does not record data on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...