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My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

I grew up in a family of nine kids.

I was raised by a single mother.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

My mom was a single parent.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.