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How single mothers handle institutional assumptions about family structure

I am a single mother and every school event assumes there is a father figure and I am tired of explaining our family structure to every new person we meet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social institutions continue to center nuclear family models, marginalizing diverse family structures.

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