Notes From A Single Mom: Still Hoping For That Prince-Of-A-Guy This Valentine’s Day?

Lynn Armitage
February 14, 2013
On any given Friday or Saturday night, my town is hopping with hopeful singles—young, old and middle-aged—jumping from eateries to bars to nightclubs looking for romance and a chan...

Notes From A Single Mom: Marry The Right Man To Begin With!

Lynn Armitage
February 03, 2013
Last December, the Luxembourg Income Study Center at the Graduate Center City University of New York released a report finding that “single mothers in the United States—most of who...

Notes From a Single Mom: Second Chances—Like Avis, Stepfamilies Have to Try Harder

Lynn Armitage
November 24, 2012
I can’t think of a better time than the Christmas season to talk about stepfamilies. After all, Jesus grew up in one...

Notes From a Single Mom: Parental Alienation—Are You Guilty of It?

Lynn Armitage
October 20, 2012
Lynn Armitage It’s a big word for a big problem, one that has been hotly debated on both sides...

Notes From a Single Mom: Is Marriage Insurance the Answer to Happily Ever After?

Lynn Armitage
October 13, 2012
Lynn Armitage Did you know that Native Americans intermarry at higher rates than any other group in the country?...

Notes From a Single Mom: Husbands Come and Go, But Dogs Are Forever

Lynn Armitage
September 23, 2012
A woman’s best friend I finally caved in and told my kids we could get a cat. What a pushover, I know. But I did hold my “no pets” ground for a while. My reasons were quite clear...

Notes From a Single Mom: Name Dropper—Keep the Married Name or Change it?

Lynn Armitage
June 24, 2012
Lynn Armitage I never really liked my maiden name: Overman, a German derivation I always had a hard time pronouncing...

Notes From a Single Mom: Sorry Situation—In Most Divorce Cases, It's the Fathers Who Lose

Lynn Armitage
June 16, 2012
Lynn Armitage Last week, my oldest daughter dropped a bombshell. She didn’t want to spend the night at her dad’s anymore because she doesn’t sleep well there...

Notes From a Single Mom: I Do, I Don't—Why Do So Many Marriages Fail?

Lynn Armitage
June 10, 2012
Lynn Armitage Did you know more couples get married in June than any other time of year? What a superstitious bunch we are...

Notes From a Single Mom: Scrambled Lives—Sometimes, I Don’t Recognize My Own Kids

Lynn Armitage
May 06, 2012
Lynn Armitage “But, Mom, we LIKE scrambled eggs!” That was a new one. I had been trying to get my girls to eat scrambled eggs for years. Then one morning, this revelation...

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