Single motherhood: the real challenges, choices and resilience of raising children alone (and how we can support single mothers)

Single motherhood is one of the most talked-about and least honestly depicted realities for women. Jenny Davidson tells it completely straight: the financial pressure, the stigma, the resilience, and everything in between.

Jenny Davidson, CEO of the Council of Single Mothers and their Children Victoria, joins Bree to share the unfiltered reality of single motherhood today, and what it actually looks like, why single parents are disproportionately women, and what support genuinely exists versus what needs to urgently change.

This episode is for single mothers, women considering solo parenting, and anyone who wants to understand the reality for women doing this alone — without the Instagram version.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What life is really like for single mothers, beyond the curated version

• The financial and social challenges single parents face that nobody prepares you for

• Why single parents in Australia are overwhelmingly women and what that reveals

• The difference between single motherhood by circumstance and single motherhood by choice

• The resilience and community that single mothers build for themselves and their children

• What support exists and what urgently needs to change

Bree is in Mumbai, India and celebrated Dahi Handi.

The website for The Council of Single Mothers and their Children Victoria here

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• Canada here
• Australia here
• UK here
• Europe here

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