Sentences with phrase «struggling as single mothers»

She learned by the hard knocks of life, as well as the experience of failed marriages along with struggling as single mother, juggling work - life balance, and losing herself in relationships.

Not exact matches

Winona Ryder as Will's struggling single mother, character actor David Harbour as police Chief Hopper, and Matthew Modine as the secret government scientist are the most recognizable faces.

They share real stories based on personal experience on relationship trouble, infidelity, raising children as single mothers, the battles the had over child support and custody, emotional struggles, dating again and as step - mothers in blended families.

Having learned the hard way about the shortfalls of single parent families he is careful not to criticise single mothers who struggle desperately, as his own did, to raise children in tough circumstances.

«As a single mother and small business owner, Katie knows well the struggles of working families in the North Country, and is exactly the kind of home - grown Working Families Democrat we need in Congress.»

Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, and Assemblywoman Pam Hunter, D - Syracuse, said they are backing Deacon because of her experience in politics and as a single mother who struggled to pay her bills.

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

Romantic sparks fly between a wealthy businessman and a struggling single mother who works as a cleaner in his office building.

Some of the Things that happen over the course of the decade or so the film spans are as follows: Tomas (Franco) is already having trouble with his girlfriend Sara (Rachel McAdams) in the course of struggling to write a novel, when on the way home one evening, he's involved in an accident that brings him into the orbit of a single mother Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her young son Christopher.

Directed by David O. Russell, the comedy - drama tells the story of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, following the single mother of three as she struggles to build her business empire.

But when he tracks his sister down and discovers her life as a struggling single mother, he's forced to re-think his life choices.

At the beginning of the film, 10 - year - old Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) lives in a tiny shack with her struggling single mother, Harriet (Lupita Nyong» o), as well as her older sister Night (Taryn Kyaze) and two younger brothers.

Lupita Nyong» o («12 Years A Slave») co-stars as Phiona's mom Nikki, a single mother of four struggling to keep a roof over her children's heads.

Andrew Garfield gave one of the great overlooked performances of the year as a put - upon single dad struggling to make ends meet for both his young son and his own mother (played by Laura Dern).

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

The film, which stars Dave Johns and Hayley Squires in the story of an elderly carpenter who bonds with a single mother as they struggle against an unfeeling bureaucracy, was a surprising winner given the rave reviews handed down to other films, including Toni Erdmann and Paterson.

His gutted parents (Emmanuelle Seigner and Tahar Rahim) struggle to understand why he has to go as a single mother (Anne Dorval) looks forward to new life with the boy's heart.

As an African - American single mother who has struggled to find the right schools for my two kids, charter schools have been a blessing.

Struggling through her first Christmas as a single mother, Holly can't decide if she should use the little energy she has left to clean the kitchen or wrap holiday gifts.

The federal EITC has been around for a long time, but now 25 states, as well as Washington, D.C., have created their own EITCs to help families that struggle to make ends meet, including households led by single working mothers.

As a single mother struggling with divorce debt, it seemed a good opportunity.

As a single mother of two trying to make ends meet, she recognized the struggle on her neighbors» faces, because children clung to her skirts, wrapped their arms around her neck as welAs a single mother of two trying to make ends meet, she recognized the struggle on her neighbors» faces, because children clung to her skirts, wrapped their arms around her neck as welas well.

Commenting on Neel's Harlem milieu, Als notes: «As a single mother of two trying to make ends meet, she recognized the struggle on her neighbors» faces, because children clung to her skirts, wrapped their arms around her neck as welAs a single mother of two trying to make ends meet, she recognized the struggle on her neighbors» faces, because children clung to her skirts, wrapped their arms around her neck as welas well.

By 1941, Neel had given birth to two more children and was now a single mother struggling to support her sons as an artist.

«As a busy single mother I had a chaotic lifestyle and struggled with low self - esteem, anxiety, and even depression.

By contrast, the children of women who are on their own as parents, and LEFT alone — those who have no divorce stress or custody hassles undermining authority, and no financial problems or social pariah status or social worker meddling (compare widowed mothers versus welfare mothers versus struggling working single mother with young children)-- do just fine.

The single mother of three boys said she made $ 11.90 an hour as a cook at a nursing facility, but still struggled to pay her $ 700 a month rent.