Safe haven for women offers hope
Daily Breeze - A nonprofit organization formed three years ago to help homeless, single mothers is making headway to give women a place to live - along with life skills training - when they flee domestic violence. With help from a diverse smattering of
BOOK REVIEW: Black women of substance share philanthropy, sisterhood
Miami Herald - My advice to other single mothers is to celebrate your sons and daughters. Be excited about everything they do, praise them for efforts big and small, and minimize arguing. Allow them to have good relationships with their fathers. Make them feel
Minneapolis woman beat Chicago boy, 4, to death, charges say
Chicago Tribune - Poole took her children to live in Minneapolis, where Assistance programs for single mothers with children were better. Brown said she did not think Poole had been able to keep a job and that she had recently given up her two youngest children twin
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Popular Mechanics - Single mothers, you mean? That’s what it sounds like I highly doubt that any woman would *choose* to be a single mother just to torment a son. I’m thinking that’s a little more about THE MAN RUNNING FOR THE HILLS. Nothing against men generally
Focus turns to
Charlotte.com - Many had other jobs, and some were single mothers supplementing their income. The women generally made 70 percent of what Saxon charged clients. One woman told authorities she made about $160,000 in 2006. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police got tips about
BOOK REVIEW: Black women of substance share philanthropy, sisterhood
Modesto Bee - My advice to other single mothers is to celebrate your sons and daughters. Be excited about everything they do, praise them for efforts big and small, and minimize arguing. Allow them to have good relationships with their fathers. Make them feel
Historic choice creates dilemma for Democrats
Nashville Tennessean - And why Obama surrounded himself with single mothers in San Francisco last week and talked about how the tax code hurts ordinary families and “women in particular.” Effort can backfire And just as Obama continues working for female votes, so, too, is
Warwickshire parents to pilot sex crime checking
IC Coventry - It will allow single mothers to ask police whether potential boyfriends have child sex convictions before they start a relation-ship. And family members or neighbours who regularly look after children could also be checked. Police and probation
Paedophile checks to be trialled in four areas
Reuters UK - LONDON (Reuters) - Single mothers will be able to check if their boyfriends are sex offenders under a pilot scheme to protect children in four police areas, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Sunday. Police and probation services will disclose the