It focuses on the kinds of stresses that military families face: relocation, deployment, separation and being a single parent.

NPR: Program Aims to Help Troops with Young Children

Having left college without completing my degree, my AmeriCorps education award made it possible to complete my studies while managing the responsibilities of being a single parent.

WHITEHOUSE: The AmeriCorps Education

The good news is that being raised by a single parent does not condemn a child to a disadvantaged life.

CNN: Why there are more walk-away moms

More a quarter of American children are being raised in single-parent households, most of them poor.

CNN: Americans' 90% tax rate

She too will probably search within the core of her being for anything she could have done to avoid this, and how to move into a role of single parent.

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