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Founder Friday: Every Single Parent of Color Has a Story. What’s Yours?
Happy Friday, folks! If you’ve stopped by BeyondBabyMamas.com at any point during this week, I’d like to personally thank you. If you’ve told someone about our online community, shared or retweeted a...
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Cissy Houston on Mothering Through Addiction.
Did any of you catch last night’s special presentation of Oprah’s Next Chapter with songstress and mother Cissy Houston? If so, you know it was at turns revelatory, admirable, and deeply tragic — much...
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The Odd Couple: Navigating Mother-Daughter Differences.
When I found out I was pregnant and officially accepted my mission to be a mother, I didn’t count on my daughter and I being an odd couple. As my pregnancy progressed, I knew that I would be a single...
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POTUS and the Problem with Questioning the Manhood of Underinvolved Dads.
… We’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood – because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to...
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How Angry Single Black Mothers With Little Hope of Marrying--Ever!--Spend...
Reblogged from stacia l. brown: We spend it loving, spend it splaying schoolhouse Valentines into arcs on the carpet, prancing around them in circles wearing wings. We spend it grinning, giggling,...
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In Loving Memory of Cassie.
Community Blogger Nesha Finister discusses the love and loss of a close friend and fellow single mother named Cassie. I grew up with Cassie’s family. Cassie was 5’11”, evenly golden brown, eyes...
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Back-to-School Series: An Interview with Jonterri Gadson.
As part of an ongoing Beyond Baby Mamas discussion about single parents of color and continuing education, we’ll be publishing essays and interviews from some of our cherished community members who’ve...
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We’re in ‘The Atlantic!’
In case you’ve missed it, unmarried motherhood has reached an all-time high according to the latest numbers from the Pew Research Center… which means there’s been a lot of public speculation about why...
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14 Lies Single Mothers Hear About Marriage.
A single mother’s ears are always burning. People just can’t seem to resist talking about us. I wrote about the tendency society has to talk about — not to — unmarried mothers for The Atlantic last...
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Fun Friday Feature: Gif the Attitudes Toward Minority Single Mom Discourse.
What people think single mothers’ past relationships were like (especially when marriage came up): In actuality, we’ve had a few different experiences. Like the majority of adults who’ve ever...
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What Maya Angelou’s New Book Can Teach Us About Single Motherhood.
Black mother-daughter relationships have been criminally under-explored in literature. There are a few truly great offerings available (Silver Sparrow, In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, and Sula*...
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How Church Culture Can Drive ‘Baby Mama Drama.’
J. Drew Sheard and son, Jacob. Credit: Facebook There may not be many representations of healthy black motherhood in scripted television, but thanks to Viacom-funded networks like VH1 and BET and...
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How Come He Don’t Want Me, Man?: Explaining Parent Absence.
Editor’s note: The following post does not discuss the permanent loss of a parent through death, though we do intend to devote a future post to this topic. Though it wasn’t often part of direct story...
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The Truth About Single Black Women and Adoption.
Nefertiti Austin is an author and single adoptive mother. I am not the first or only single non-famous Black woman to adopt in America, and yet it seems that way. In 2006, I had no clue how hard it...
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Michelle Obama and the Great Debate About When to Call Yourself a ‘Single Mom.’
On NPR’s Tell Me More this Tuesday, I participated in a segment designed to offer married mothers tips on how to manage their temporary solo parenting experiences. The idea for the segment came from a...
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Enter to Win: Beyond Baby Mamas Wants to Treat You to Mother’s Day Dinner!
For restaurants, Mother’s Day is big business. For single-parent families, it’s just a big expense. If your children are old enough to contribute, it can be fun, provided they have jobs or a few...
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Fun Friday Feature: A Single Mothers’ Mixtape.
Co-Parenting 101, an organization Beyond Baby Mamas deeply admires, recently featured divorce writer, coach and mentor Mandy Walker on their radio broadcast, Co-Parenting Matters, here they talked...
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Community Blogger T.H.: Let a Single Mother Know You’re Here for Her
When you hear, see or read people talking about single mothers, more often than not, the comments are negative. Single mothers are branded harlots and sinners for not having a child within a legal...
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‘Respect My Motherhood’: Our New Online Campaign.
Part of what we do here at Beyond Baby Mamas is push back against memes and media that criticize, denigrate, and/or label single mothers. The month of May has given us quite a bit of material to work...
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The Golden Opportunity: Sexuality & the Deconstruction of the Baby-Mama...
Acclaimed poet and performing artist Roger Bonair-Agard is the first guest to be featured in Beyond Baby Mama’s Affirming Black Fatherhood Series. Every day this week, as a lead-in to Father’s Day,...
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