I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.

I am singular in my calling in life. A single mother to my children and a single parent to my siblings. I call it double whammy!

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

I am a single parent and I am not getting any compensation for my losses.