Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
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.
My mom was a single parent.
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.