The revolving door of childcare from 1989 to 2007 (in what became in 1996 my single-parent home when the boys were 6, 4 and 1) appeared at times to have a similar attrition rate to that of "The Apprentice".
Affording a beach vacation in New England was impossible on my single-parent salary, so I convinced a friend and her kids to join us on a week-long trip to Prince Edward Island after spotting an ad for a cottage there that rented for just $400 a week.
2. The conversation of these peripatetics, if they would so allow to be named, could be gently (may I repeat the word "gentle," as an adverb) recorded/filmed (without brain-busting soundbites), touching on subjects beyond "I've been working out since age five;" "I'm so grateful to my coach for getting the best out of me;" "My single-parent Mom made it possible for me to be a gold-winner".
The worst of my own single parent guilt kicks in when I consider my own childhood.
Personally, I'm a bit of a reverse PSN, having attended fancy private schools for the first half of my life until my mother (a single parent to twins) finally conceded economic defeat.
This is the country that made it possible for my mother, a single parent who had to go on food stamps at one point, to send my sister and me to the best schools in the country on scholarships.
Having been on the council house list for 13 years with no promise of a house on the horizon, my mum's single parent income could not match the recent dramatic rise in rent prices after our superpower landlord decided to sell our house.
As a single parent, my mom raised my brother and me, worked a full-time job, and (through encouragement from my family) went back to school to obtain her master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology.
My grandmother raised four kids, and became a single parent when my grandfather passed on and my younger uncle was a tender 14.
All this happened a few decades ago when Tupac was still alive and I was fresh from a whole lot of mess, raising my child as a single parent, and "Brenda's Got A Baby," was my "go to" song when things got rough. .
She was basically a single parent; my stepfather was ill and not really part of my upbringing.
