Sentences with phrase «years as a single mother»

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Although the dream had to be put on hold for the next several years as Ganahl adjusted to life as a single mother raising their children, she never gave up.

«I just can't imagine that Nikolas Cruz can commit such a heinous crime and then, as a result, we tell potentially a 20 - year - old single mother living alone that she can not purchase a firearm to protect herself,» Representative Jay Fant of Jacksonville, a Republican running for attorney general, said on the House floor.

She simply saw me as an oasis from the desert of being a single mother for 13 years.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

Earlier in the year, when she won the New York primary, she took it as a moment to highlight firemen from the South Bronx and single mothers from Staten Island.

Councillor Brenda Dacres, who stood unsuccessfully to be Lewisham mayor earlier this year, said she was motivated to stand by the Windrush scandal, as a single mother whose parents were from the Windrush generation.

As a mother to a wild and full - of - energy 2 - year - old boy, a health and wellness coach, and a yoga and Pilates teacher — plus, I'm working hard all the while to build my business — great sleep is the most important gift I give myself every single night.

When the shit finally hit the fan (as it inevitably does in midlife when we are not living our truth) and my husband of a decade asked for a divorce, I was faced with overwhelming fear about my future as a single, 40 - year - old mother of three.

Nine years ago I graduated with an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University, divorced, and transitioned from my role as an at - home mother of two young children to a working single mother and long distance parent.

As the single adoptive mother of a child with early developmental trauma, attachment issues, and some physical disabilities, I spent a few years confused about what I was experiencing.

I reached my stress bottom about 5 years ago when I was working as a real estate broker here in NYC and also a single mother of a very active toddler.

I am a single mother of a three year old boy and an eight month old girl I work as a CNA and have started classes to become a nurse!

after so many years and how its tough as a single mother eg with childcare etc..

like to travel and be as spontaneous as i can, as i am a single mother of a 6 year old boy.

Im a single mother of a two year old girl also i like spending as much time as i can with he but i done love learning new things.

Hillbilly - Redneck woman with an attitude I am sweet as Apple Pie but can be meaner then a Rattle Snake I am also a Single Mother to My handsome 18 Year old Son that is my heart and I am Proud of him...?»

I'm a single mother, I'm 22 years old, current college student & working as well.

Newcomer Brooklynn Prince stars as Moonee, a 6 - year - old girl living in a cheap hotel with her single mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) in Orlando.

As Brown, who has similarly fought alcohol abuse and is four years sober, gets to know Allen, he gets to know her, a single mother whose relationship is crumbling this very day on her boyfriend's 30th birthday.

With the exception of a prison - set flashback, the movie unfolds over the course of a single day, as Grant (Chronicle's Michael B. Jordan) runs errands, visits his mother (Octavia Spencer), and hangs with his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) and 4 - year - old daughter (Ariana Neal).

Best supporting actress This category contains what I consider to be the year's single best performance, that of Melissa Leo as the Reverend Mother in «Novitiate.»

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.

Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer stand out as a neurotic, animal - rescuing single mother and her laid - back, ne'er - do - well father, an 85 - year old who enlists grandson Henry (Lewis MacDougall) to help sell marijuana under her nose.

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.

It opens as a single mother (Kathryn Hahn) reconnects with her parents on Facebook after 15 years estrangement.

She put on about 50 pounds to play Marlo, something she felt she had to do because, as she told Ellen Degeneres on her talk show, «mothers do this every single day — they get pregnant and they gain all that weight, and it takes them a year and a half to lose it, and if they don't, they get judged.»

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).

Cate Marquis: NOVITIATE stars Margaret Qualley as Cathleen Norris, a 17 - year - old raised by a non-religious single mother who nonetheless decides to enter a convent, and Melissa Leo as the Mother Superior of the strict cloistered order she chooses tomother who nonetheless decides to enter a convent, and Melissa Leo as the Mother Superior of the strict cloistered order she chooses toMother Superior of the strict cloistered order she chooses to join.

He is still very much a child but has taken on the financial onus for his divorced single mother, Susan (Naomi Watts), who works as a diner waitress to raise Henry and his 8 - year - old brother, Peter (Jacob Tremblay), in upstate New York.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

As Dianne Piche of the Leadership Council for Civil and Human Rights noted last year in a Center for American Progress forum, single mothers, in particular, have to also think about childcare, especially since they must pick up their kids from school and daycare.

.67 and graduated Magna Cum Laude after 4 years of working 3 part - time jobs and raising 3 children as a single mother.

She has also written several bestselling books of nonfiction, including, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son's first year followed by Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son, and a writing guide: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

As the single mother of a disabled daughter, 52 - year - old Mississauga resident Rita Kerkmann worries about what will happen after she's gone.

Is this the best option for me, as a single mother with a limited budget, to start paying on my loans and quickest way to start the process of getting the offset lifted to be able to collect my taxes this year?

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

The 36 - year - old Chicago prosecutor, a single mother seven years out of law school, moonlights as a bartender to make ends meet on her $ 59,000 annual salary.

«I just can't imagine that Nikolas Cruz can commit such a heinous crime and then as a result we tell, potentially, a 20 - year - old single mother living alone that she can not purchase a firearm to defend herself,» Fant said.

For instance, if he started a support group for single mothers as part of his second year internship, that information should be highlighted.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

The busy broker and single mother of a 13 - year - old and a toddler finds her community work to be as personally rewarding as it is for the many children she assists.

You see, I had started fresh in real estate some 20 years before as a single mother on welfare with three children to take care of.

With a love for the fast paced environment of Real Estate sales, and unmatched determination to provide for her family as a single mother, she completed 25 + transactions in her first full year as a Realtor, and landed on the national stage, dubbed the Million Dollar Mom.

Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life: «I never knew we were poor.