"Successful single mothers are not the ones that have never struggled.
They are the ones, that NEVER GIVE UP, despite the struggles."
JustLiving Advocacy provides life-saving support for women who lead single parent households by assisting with childcare.
Our programs provide opportunities to ‘bridge’ women to the workforce and help them become self-sustaining.
A single parent is a person who lives with a child or children and who does not have a spouse or live-in partner. Reasons for becoming a single parent include divorce, break-up, abandonment, domestic violence, rape, death of the other parent, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
In the US, single mothers make up most single-parent families. Moreover, according to 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, 4 out of about 11 million single parent families with children under the age of 18, 80 percent were headed by single mothers. Of all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority..among 12 million single-parent families in 2016, 80% comprise of single mothers. Many studies have identified the proliferation of single-parent families, particularly those with single mothers, as a major factor in the continuous increase of child poverty in the country.