To the single mom: 43 Best Single Mom Quotes
43 Best Single Mom Quotes
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Emma Johnson
“Just because my plan A didn’t work out didn’t mean plan B couldn’t be really kickass. In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn’t be completely wonderful.”
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Christine Michel Carter
“As a single mom, you just have to realize that the day-to-day is going to be a %@$&show, for lack of a better phrase. You have to be flexible, be there for school drop offs, pick ups, and the madness of it all.”
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Helena Christensen
Country Living
“Because your child is your first priority, you’re more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special.”
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Sheryl Crow
Country Living
“I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys. I find time to make both a priority.”
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Padma Lakshmi
Country Living
“I have a great career, and I have my daughter. So what I don’t have is not as important to me as what I do have.”
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Diane Keaton
Country Living
“The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don’t feel as if I need a man.”
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Kate Hudson
Country Living
“I’m not really single. I mean, I am, but I have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.”
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Kate Winslet
Country Living
“You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.”
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January Jones
Country Living
“I have time for everything I had time for before. I just have an added amazing thing in my life.”
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Barbara Kingsolver
Country Living
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Padma Lakshmi
Country Living
“I was told I couldn’t have children, so every day I am kissing the sky with happiness about it.”
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Regina King
Country Living
“It’s difficult, but far from impossible and we smile more than we cry.”
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Padma Lakshmi
Country Living
“It’s the only way of life I’ve known. I was raised by a single mom.”
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Yvonne Kaloki
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“Just because I am a single mother doesn’t mean I cannot be a success.”
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Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
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“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.”
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Denise Richards
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“I think moms, single or not, put a lot of pressure on ourselves trying to balance it all.
It’s NEVER going to be perfectly balanced—the sooner you know this, the sooner you can relieve some of the pressure you put on yourself.”
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Emma-Louise Smith
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“As a single mum you’ll discover inner strengths and capabilities you never knew you had.”
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Edie Falco
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“As a single mom, I’m juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.”
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Anonymous
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“Being a single parent made me stronger than ever before.”
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Christina Milian
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“I want to show the example that you can be a single mother and work and handle a lot of other things at the same time.”
The Beauty of Being a Single Mom People Don’t Understand
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There’s something really special — and empowering — about raising a child all on my own.
By Anna Davies
The summer I was 31, I put my belongings in storage and went to Europe. I told everyone I was planning to finally finish my novel, but in reality, I was hoping to meet my future husband. I went on Tinder dates across Europe before I settled in Dublin, Ireland, for a few months.
By the fall, I was back in the U.S. I didn’t have a husband, or a boyfriend. But I was pregnant, and committed to raising my child as a single mom. The details matter less and less with each passing year, and I try to keep them relatively opaque to preserve my daughter’s privacy. But her dad isn’t in the picture or on her birth certificate. Since the first day I saw the double pale pink line on the pregnancy test, it’s just been the two of us. And I am so grateful for that.
The author with her daughter, Lucy, as a baby.Courtesy Anna Davies
In my 20s, I worked at a women’s magazine, primarily focused on sex and relationship content.
My circle of friends was predominantly women. I saw relationships as a means to an end. By the time I hit 30 and more of my friends were becoming partnered, I felt unmoored and panicky. I was done with my life as a single woman, but unsure what I wanted for the future. I would approach dates like job interviews, trying to cast the person in front of me for the role of husband. Did he have a stable job? Great. A good relationship with his family? Awesome. Did he want kids in the future? Then I would do whatever I could to ensure we would have a second date. I didn’t have time to talk about favorite books or musical tastes or what inspired him. If he sounded good on paper, then he was the right fit for me. To me, having a partner was essential to “ladder up” in the game of life. While I knew this wasn’t a healthy approach to relationships, I also didn’t really see an alternative. I wanted a family. And a husband was the way to get it.
But then, my unexpected pregnancy changed everything — starting with my outlook.
The more things I did by myself — even things that people around me said couldn’t be done, like taking care of a newborn alone — the more I realized I didn’t need a partner. In fact, I realized that in many ways, I didn’t want one.
I went to the hospital in labor on the subway, by myself. I came home three days later, cesarean-section-sore, by myself. For the first seven months of being a parent, my daughter came everywhere with me, simply because there was no one else to watch her. Were there sleepless nights? Of course. Hours of endless Googling the afternoon she rolled off the bed onto the carpeted floor? Without a doubt. But there was also a sense of calm growing inside me. The more things I did by myself — even things that people around me said couldn’t be done, like taking care of a newborn alone — the more I realized I didn’t need a partner. In fact, I realized that in many ways, I didn’t want one.
This became more apparent as I saw how easily resentments could grow in relationships.
I saw partnered friends struggle with compromises and have disagreements about child-rearing. Everything from which foods to introduce to their infants to where to send their child to day care was a topic for discussion, and often disagreement. Not needing to compromise made me rely on my own intuition and become incredibly comfortable with my own internal voice and compass.
“I was experiencing love for the first time with my child,” Anna Davies writes of her relationship with her daughter as a single mom.Courtesy Anna Davies
I was also falling in love, and it looked nothing like what I had imagined. Instead of falling in love with a potential partner, I was experiencing love for the first time with my child. I was entranced by her opinions and her personality, the way she loved animals and sang off-key to the “Frozen” soundtrack and the millions of other things she did that were toddler-typical but also unique to her. She had mannerisms that I recognized from my own childhood pictures — a half smile, bright blue eyes — but was so very much herself.
She was also completely dependent on me. Everything from the jobs I took to where I lived was decided within the lens of what was best for her. But rather than feel resentful, I felt empowered. I had the ability to put someone else above myself.
Rather than feel resentful, I felt empowered. I had the ability to put someone else above myself.
In my 20s, I dated one man for six months, which is my longest romantic relationship to date. His biography — lawyer, smart, wanted kids in the future — checked all the right boxes. One night, he called me because he had sprained his wrist during a workout. “I don’t want to be by myself tonight. I think I need someone here,” he said. I remember bristling in annoyance. I had a huge work project due the next day. My plan had been to spend the weekend holed up in my apartment, alone, completing it. In fact, I had liked being by myself, without anyone interrupting me. I didn’t want to be with him, and I didn’t want anyone depending on me.
But I felt the right thing to do was to put aside my own needs and go take care of him for the evening, even though I was resentful and angry.
We broke up not long after, but that experience worried me. Maybe, I thought, it was proof I wasn’t meant for relationships. His request had been so normal. Why had it made me so angry? It wasn’t until I was parenting Lucy did I realize what love without expectations felt like. I was learning to parent while learning to love, and it was a deep, intense, healing journey that would have been impossible if I had just fallen into a relationship because someone checked the right boxes.
I don’t want to say that being a solo parent is easy. It’s not. I’ve made a ton of compromises in my career to have the flexibility needed for taking care of a young child. The parent-child relationship when there’s only one parent and one child can be incredibly intense. I never want Lucy to feel responsible for my emotions, and I want her to realize that while this is a life that makes sense for me, it’s not one that makes sense for everyone.
I would love her to be able to have that deep, all-consuming love with a partner that eluded me in my twenties. But I know now that it’s also fine if she doesn’t.
Davies celebrates with her daughter, who is now 8 years old. Courtesy Anna Davies
Today, Lucy is 8. And I know a child is very different from having a partner. But as so many of my friends’ and acquaintances’ marriages crumbled due to COVID and other factors, I’m so thankful for the stability that I was able to give Lucy by recognizing that my potential as a parent was independent of my potential as a partner.
In the past two years, I’ve also started going on dates. I’ve lost the need to couple up, which has meant I’m a lot more genuine on dates. I’ve lost the “pick me, pick me” mentality of my 20s and finally have the perspective I needed to determine: Do I like this person? I also have confidence in knowing what is right for me. I know that I will never settle into something that isn’t the right fit, and that’s something I want Lucy to learn, too.
I want her to learn she has inner strength and resolve inside her. But most of all, I want her to know that sometimes, living life out of order can be magical, empowering and exactly the right path.
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Anna Davies
Anna Davies is a writer, editor and content strategist living in Jersey City, New Jersey, with her daughter. She has written for The New York Times, New York, Glamour and others. She loves traveling and sharing the adventures she has with her daughter on Instagram @babybackpacker.
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Finally, we have waited – 8 years after the entry into force of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court gave official clarifications on the question – whom the courts should recognize single mothers . Part four of Art. 261 of the Labor Code establishes a ban on termination of an employment contract at the initiative of the employer with women with children under the age of three, single mothers raising a child under the age of fourteen (a disabled child under eighteen), as well as other persons raising these children without mother (with the exception of dismissal for a limited number of grounds directly listed in this article). At the same time, the specified restriction for the termination by the employer of an employment contract with women with children under the age of three is not due to the presence of any other circumstances, in particular, the absence of paternal care for the child. The concept of a single mother, as well as a person raising a child without a mother, is not officially defined either in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation or in other federal laws. The concept of “single mother, single mother” The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in its Review of legislation and judicial practice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for the first quarter of 2010 explained the following: missing or this entry was made in the prescribed manner at the direction of the mother (while retaining the right to receive prescribed benefits in the event of a single mother entering into marriage). At the same time, on an equal basis with such mothers, the corresponding cash payments were assigned to women who were not married, recorded as mothers of children adopted by them, and in some periods – also to widows and widowers who had children and did not receive a survivor’s pension or social pension for them. According to paragraph 28 of the Decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 01.28.2014 No. 1 (which gives a broader definition), single mothers can include a woman who is the only person actually exercising parental responsibilities for the upbringing and development of her children ( relatives or adopted) in accordance with family and other legislation, that is, raising them without a father, in particular, in cases where the father of the child has died, deprived of parental rights, restricted in parental rights, declared missing, incapacitated (limited incapable), according to due to health reasons, cannot personally raise and support a child, is serving a sentence in institutions that carry out punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty, evades raising children or protecting their rights and interests, in other situations . Note No. 1 : the law does not provide for the automatic loss of the status of a single mother by a woman after marriage in the absence of information about the adoption of a child (determination of the St. Petersburg City Court dated July 5, 2018 in case No. 33-13981 / 2018). Note No. 2 : If child support is not paid, the court may recognize such a mother as single. So, the Moscow City Court considered case No. 33-52672/2019on the legitimacy of the dismissal to reduce the worker who raised a child under the age of 14 years. At the same time, the woman submitted a copy of the court order for the recovery of alimony for the maintenance of a minor child and a certificate of the bailiff-executor on the presence of arrears in the payment of alimony for the child. As a result, the court came to the conclusion that the established Art. The Chelyabinsk Regional Court also recognized the woman as a single mother and recognized the redundancy as illegal, although the woman was married abroad to a citizen of a foreign state (Determination of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court dated December 24, 2019 in case No. 2-4012 / 2019) . At the same time, she claimed that, having learned about her pregnancy, her husband actually stopped relations with her and they did not meet again. The court found that the child was born in Russia, the father of the child was never registered at the place of residence in Russia, the mother of the child did not leave the territory of the Russian Federation after his birth, and it is virtually impossible to collect alimony from the father in the territory of another state. Thus, these citizens were recognized as in need of increased social protection, since they were the only parents (adoptive parents) of children, that is, the only persons endowed with legal rights and bearing parental responsibilities for raising their children (relative or adopted). As for the persons raising children specified in the fourth part of Art. 261 of the Labor Code of the age without a mother, then the restriction on termination of the employment contract with them by the employer is not associated by this norm with the observance of any conditions, in particular, the presence of family relations with the child or any specific circumstances of the absence of maternal education. Therefore the guarantee in question should be provided to employees who personally and directly carry out the actual upbringing of children , for example, if the mother of the child died, was declared dead, deprived of her rights, limited in parental rights, recognized as missing, incapacitated (limitedly capable), for health reasons cannot personally bring up and support a child, is absent for a long time, is serving a sentence in institutions that carry out punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty, is in places of detention of suspects and accused of committing crimes, evades raising children or protecting their rights and interests, or refused to take his child from an educational, medical institution, institution of social protection of the population and other similar institutions, in other situations. Thus, based on the considered provisions of the fourth part of Art. 261 of the Labor Code, in order to increase the level of social and legal protection and maintain the stability of labor relations of persons named in it with family responsibilities , it is not allowed to terminate the employment contract at the initiative of the employer (with the exceptions listed in this article), along with working women with children aged up to three years, also with employees raising children of this age without a mother in the above cases, regardless of whether they are the only educators of such children , and, in addition, with employees who are the sole caregivers of children , including relatives or adopted children left without maternal and (or) paternal care in appropriate cases, over the age of three years, but under fourteen years of age ( disabled children – eighteen years). At the same time, the regional authorities give their own definitions of this concept. What an employer needs to know when dismissing women study the marriage and (or) birth certificate of the child, but also find outon the date of dismissal :
The employer’s ignorance that his employee is a single mother will not release him from liability (in this situation, by analogy, the practice of recognizing illegal dismissal of a pregnant employee will be applied, even if the employer did not know about it). In order to respect all her rights when dismissing a woman, the employer needs to request information about the employee’s family relationships, and if the employee refuses to provide such information, record the refusal. For example, the Moscow City Court (Appellate ruling of the Moscow City Court dated November 20, 2019 in case No. 33-52672/2019) declared the reduction of a woman illegal. Before leaving, the employee warned the head of the organization that she was divorced, raising a child under 14 without the help of her father. To confirm this, she submitted the following documents:
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(for example, paragraph 3 of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of August 12, 1970 N 659 “On approval of the Regulation on the procedure for assigning and paying benefits to pregnant women, mothers with many children and single mothers” and paragraph 8 of the said Regulation, paragraph 4 of the Interim Regulation on the procedure for assigning and paying a lump-sum allowance for the birth of a child, a unified monthly allowance for children, state allowance for single mothers, approved by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of November 24, 1990 No. 1177, clause 41 of the Regulations on the procedure for assigning and paying state benefits to citizens with children , approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 4, 1995 N 883). 
Since this list of signs is not exhaustive, almost any mother who raises a child alone can be classified as single. 
261 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, a ban on termination of an employment contract at the initiative of the employer under paragraph 2 of part one of Art. 81 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and reinstated the woman at work. 
All this led the judges to conclude that the mother is raising a child without a father and, as a result, is protected by law from layoffs. 
So, according to the Decree of the Government of Moscow of 06.04.2004 N 199-PP “On the procedure for the appointment and payment of an additional lump-sum allowance in connection with the birth of a child to young families” a single mother is a woman who is not in a registered marriage, in whose child’s birth certificate there is no entry about the father or such an entry was made at her direction – if there is a relevant certificate from the registry office . 
