Sentence examples for single parent mom from inspiring English sources

I've never met a single parent mom who was as relaxed as Lorelai on the "Gilmore Girls" and there are few, if any, other referenceable examples of starring roles of moms of children with disabilities.

"We have a lot of single parents, moms raising children on their own," Ms. Chemi said.

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".

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.

He told her that as a single parent, he was both mom and dad.

So many jurisdictions have accepted single parent adoption: just a mom or just a dad, no 'pairing up'.

Most in this group come from single parent families where the mom doesn't have time to talk to the kids let alone to work with them on their homework.

My mom befriended everyone -- Angelo, the elderly Sicilian who walked down the street carrying heavy grocery bags; Maria the single parent that rang up my mom at the local Compare Foods grocery store; and some whose names escape me.

Batchelor: My mom is a single parent so she always tells me that her purpose in life is making sure I do well and I think my mom supports what I do.

"My mom was a single parent and worked two jobs, as a telephone operator during the day and in a doughnut shop at night.

— Andy Greenberg, NYC There is no evidence of "deadbeat dads" in the hawk world, though there are many bird species where a single parent (sometimes the dad, sometimes the mom) routinely takes sole responsibility for raising the young.