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Single Not Alone

Let's Make it Easier for Single Mothers to Raise Healthy Kids.

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Challenges

The United States is a global leader in single-parent households–not simply among “advanced” democracies, but among 130 countries and territories from across a full spectrum of regions, development statuses, and types of government. We have twice as many single-parent households as Germany or Denmark, three times as many single-parent homes as Mexico, and more than 20 times as many single family homes as Mali.

Roughly one-quarter of all U.S. children live with one parent and no other adults–three times the global rate of single-adult households. In most cases, that parent is a single mother. 

In the United States, right now, one-in-five children live with a solo mother (a number that’s nearly doubled in the last fifty years).

Given current trends, a child born to two married parents is increasingly likely to grow up in a single-adult household.

According to the Pew Research Center, more than one-in-five children born within a marriage today will be living with a solo parent before their ninth birthday.

If you don’t make it easier for parents to be parents, then you are making it harder for children to grow up healthy.

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Single-parent households face a unique combination of stresses and challenges that reinforce and amplify each other: financial hardships, housing and employment instability, unreliable healthcare, scheduling challenges, conflicts with extended family and non-custodial adults, too little time and too many responsibilities.   

Across numerous studies, children raised in single-mother families are at heightened risk for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, self-harm, risky behavior, victimization, and entering the criminal justice system. These risks often follow them into adulthood, where low academic attainment leads to stunted careers, a lack of resources, and their own struggles over their lifetimes. 

Now, more than ever, it’s vital that we break this cycle. Research has shown that a single-parent home can be just as supportive as a multi-adult home–and a child reared by a single parent just as successful as any other.

But that’s only if we make sure that every single-mother family has the support they need. 

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They are single, but we can’t let them take all of this on alone.

Our Mission

ABOUT SINGLE NOT ALONE

Single Not Alone is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to providing support for single mothers and their children, focusing on three specific areas of need.

  1. We believe in supporting mental health counseling for single mothers and their children, because it’s easier to raise healthy children than it is to mend broken adults.

  2. We believe in supporting after school and extracurricular programs and equipment for children because it has been shown these are the hours were families most benefit from stable enrichment activities and kids most benefit from monitoring and support.

  3. We believe in supporting emergency medical care programs for single mothers and their children because a single medical trauma can so easily crush a family that is already struggling emotionally or financially.

Single Mothers Face Many Challenges

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of all married couples with children live below the poverty line.

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of single mothers live in poverty.

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children born within a marriage today will be living with a solo parent before their ninth birthday.

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of all U.S. children live with one parent and no other adults, 3x the global rate of single-adult households. In most cases, that parent is a single mother.

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