Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status. In 1918, Jessie Ashley, a feminist lawyer from a genteel ...

As a single parent, your kids are a massive part of your life—if not your entire life. Devoting an immense amount of time and energy to being a good, attentive parent is incredible.

According to census data, single mothers make an average of $32,586 a year; roughly 29 percent of single parents fall below the country’s very low poverty line. Married couples take home an ...

Single parents generally have little bandwidth for reading dense theology, but this 365-day devotional offers ample theological bang for the harried single parent’s quiet-time buck.

Single parenting can be a choice. Being a single parent isn’t always a bad thing—sometimes, it’s the preferred option, says Emma Johnson, author of the new book, The Kickass Single Mom: Be ...

Ms. Kearney is the author of the forthcoming book “The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.” There has been a huge transformation in the way ...

Still, to many single-parent families, the elegantly framed discourse fails to capture just one thing: context. “It’s the indelible aspect of the single-parent experience that is somehow continuously ...