Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

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

Parents make tough calls every single day, and part of being a parent is knowing that sometimes the things you do will work and sometimes they won't work.

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.

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.