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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Single mom means a person who is not married to their child's other parent and who is not in a cohabitating or romantic relationship with their child's other parent.

There are all sorts of configurations of that, though.  I am a single mom because I am unmarried and have a child with my previous boyfriend.  He is an involved coparent, but I am very much the primary/default parent.  (and when he deploys, I am the 100% custodial parent.)  I have friends who had themselves inseminated, and there is no father in the picture.  I have friends who were married and are now single moms with little or no help from dad.  I have friends who had babies in previous relationship with varying levels of involvement.

We recognize there is a great deal of variation between individual single moms.

(also, obviously, once a single mom marries or remarries, she is no longer a single mom, even if it's not to the father of her child.)[/quote]

We'll have to agree to disagree 14:40.  While someone with an involved co-parent may technically fit the description of "single mom," that isn't what I think the phrase typically implies. [/quote]

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