All The Single Mothers

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  The Photographer Redefining What It Means To Be A Single Woman & A Mother

  Refinery29 - Amy Sedghi, Krystal Neuvill

  "Growing up I used to read a lot of magazines and I didn’t really notice that sometimes there weren’t people that looked like me," explains Hackney-based photographer Krystal Neuvill. "I feel like that had an effect and I had a kind of warped perception. As you get older you sort of think Oh wow. …

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  I Was A Single Mum At 24 With 3 Kids. Now I Work In TV. Here's How I Did It

  Refinery29 - Husna Wahid

  My younger sister was a newlywed and my peers were getting married, yet there I was at 24, with three children, newly divorced. One of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make was to walk away. It was like a house on fire; you watch everything you know and love burn down without your control and …

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  When My Ex Killed Himself I Became A Single Mother

  Refinery29 - SUZANNE HARRINGTON

  The Day It Happens After I order dinner – sushi, teriyaki, sticky rice – we wait for him to arrive. Me, our two small kids, my visiting parents, sitting around the big table in the airy front room of my Brighton flat. He’d emailed the day before, saying he was looking forward to seeing us, then …

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  To Our Mums Who Did It All On Their Own: You Smashed It

  Refinery29 - Katy Thompsett

  The summer after my parents split up, my mum decided we needed a holiday. Off we went to the seaside, the four of us – my little brother and sister, Mum and me – bundled into our rickety Austin Metro, navigating the M3 and the unfamiliar landscape of our family without Dad. It was a week of firsts: …

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  These Single Mums Moved In Together To Raise Their Kids

  Refinery29 - Joan McFadden

  Around one in four families with children in the UK are single parent families, and the parent is largely a woman, typically in her 30s. Last year, a report by Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, revealed how single parents’ aspirations can be thwarted by circumstances outside …

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  The Podcasters Shattering The Single Mum Mould

  Refinery29 - Sally McIlhone

  Call it fate, destiny, whatever – sometimes the best things in life happen by accident. I was scrolling through the Instagram Stories of Frolo, the soon-to-be-launched single parent community app, when I saw that founder Zoe Desmond had bigged up the Alright For A Mum podcast. At this point I was …