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Childless Comfort

It is about three generations of the Ahn family who are all living in one house in the suburbs of Seoul, and how they deal with the societal discrimination that their smart and highly educated, eldest granddaughter faces, when she became a single mother.


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Ashton Youboty

His family settled in Philadelphia, where he attended Girard College, a college prep boarding school for single parent kids and low income families.

Level Field Fund-Swimming

Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Powers, founder of the Ross Powers Foundation and the Level Field Fund, grew up in a single-parent household with limited financial resources.

Menelik Watson

Watson was born into a single-parent family of four brothers raised on the Anson Estate in Longsight, Greater Manchester, England; his mother worked as an office cleaner to support the family.

Raising Miranda

Raising Miranda is the story of Donald Marshack (James Naughton), a Racine, Wisconsin contractor who suddenly found himself a single parent when his wife Bonnie had abandoned him and their 15 year old daughter, Miranda (Royana Black), in order to go and "find herself".

Social disorganization theory

According to the Social Disorganization Theory there are ecological factors that lead to high rates of crime in these communities, and these factors linked to constantly elevated levels of "high school dropouts, unemployment, deteriorating infrastructures, and single-parent homes" (Gaines and Miller).

Stephanie James

Stephanie Beth James (born 17 August 1985, Aberdare, Glamorgan) is a Welsh actress who began her career in 2004, at the age of 19, when she portrayed the role of single mother Leigh-Anne Williams in the feature film "A Way of Life", in which she portrayed a struggling single parent who was at the centre of a storyline featuring a racially motivated murder.

T.M. Scorzafava

T.M. Scorzafava is an award winning Italian-American film writer, director and producer who grew up in Holly Springs, North Carolina as an only child of a single parent family.