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The Weight She Was Never Supposed to Carry: Black Motherhood, Family Structure, and the Cost of Doing It Alone

“Behind every statistic is a mother carrying responsibilities that were never meant to rest on one set of shoulders alone.” -Jerome R. Hardaway Too often, when we talk about the number of Black children being raised in single-parent households, the conversation quickly becomes a criticism of Black women. We ask why so many mothers are

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Family, Life, Parenting

How to Cope When Your Child Leaves Home for College, part 2:Move-in Day

Yesterday, I moved my second oldest daughter into college. My baby girl is officially a freshman at Saint Joseph’s University. There are a lot of emotions that come with dropping your kid off at college. I wrote about some of those feelings the first time around — the adjustment, the anxiety, the strange realization of

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