‘There’s no perfect mom’: Single mothers and their kids share their stories

Featured photo: Tamara Jeffries and her daughter, Mali (courtesy photo)Of the roughly 24 million, or one-third of all American children under the age of 18 who are living with an unmarried parent, about 80 percent of them are being raised by single moms. When compared to the total population of children, that means about one-in-five or 21 percent of kids live with a single mom, according to 2018 data collected by the Pew Research Center. And despite the prevalence of this parenting dynamic, old