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Personal Essays

Joy Henderson single mom personal essay

October 11, 2023

Pregnant and Alone: A Single Mom’s Journey to Self-Love and Strength


by Joy Henderson

From heartbreak to forgiveness. A personal essay by Marsha Frazier.

October 4, 2023

How A Single Mom Healed Her Heart Through Forgiveness


by Marsha Frazier

Because We Love Our Son, Lingaire Nje personal essay about co=parenting.

July 29, 2023

Co-Parenting After Breaking Up: How Single Parents Love for Their Son Helped Them Push Past Resentment


by Lingaire Njie

July 22, 2023

Finding Strength Through Struggle: How a Lifetime of Lessons Wrote One Single Mom’s Story


by Nadiyah Al-Amin

My Son Was Meant To Be, Rashawnda Plummers personal essay

July 15, 2023

Unexpected Pregnancy, Unwavering Love: How I Came to Believe My Son Was Meant to Be


by Rashawnda Plummer

Tamera Stafford Personal Essay

July 8, 2023

How God Gives Single Moms the Courage to Start Over


by Tamera Stafford

Life Happens a personal essay by Single Mom Merecedes Howze Williams

July 1, 2023

Teen Mom Overcomes Obstacles by Following Heart and God


by Merecedes Williams

Love Lives On. Jill Tillman's story on finding, love, loss and motherhood after.

June 24, 2023

Love Lives On: The Journey as a Widow and Single Mom


by Jill Tilman

Single mom Ebony Pugh shares her story on forgiving herself and embracing single motherhood.

June 17, 2023

Forgiving Myself as a Single Mom: How Letting Go of Guilt Helped Me Move Forward


by Ebony Pugh

Single mom Victoria Williams shares how letting go of expectations made her a better mom.

June 10, 2023

How to Set and Release Expectations as a Single Moms


by Victoria Williams

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ABOUT US

Single Mom Defined, a photo essay and video series, provides a much more accurate definition about single Black motherhood than the one society presents. Often, when single Black mothers are discussed or Googled, they are crammed into the same stereotypical storyline when in fact they each took a unique path to parenthood.

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