Being a Single

Mom Co-
Culture
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The Co-culture that I am going to talk about is that of being a single mom. A woman raising a child on her own

without a husband or partner and doesn’t receive financial, emotional or physical parenting support from your partner

then you are a single mum. In other places, you're considered single until you have been residing with your partner for

more than two years.

FREQUENCY

CAUSES • In 2020, there were about 15.31 million children living with a
single mother in the United States.
• Divorce
• Out of about 11 million single parent families with children
• Death of spouse
under the age of 18, nearly 80 percent were headed by single
• break-up
mothers.
• abandonment
• Around half (52.3%) of single mothers have never married,
• domestic violence
almost a third (29.3%) are divorced, 18.4% are either separated
• rape
or widowed.
 The artifact that I am going to discuss is the photograph of me and my child. The basic
concept of photography has been around since about the 5th century B.C.E.

IMPORTANCE
• History through images
• Photos are stories
• Photography lets us see something we may never have
noticed otherwise.
• Photograph is a way to express your ideas for others to see.
• Captures memories that last forever
• Photos represent what’s important
I have always been a shutter bug. What I didn’t anticipate was
how that passion and meaning of pictures would change when I Put your own pictures here
had my two kids and then losing my partner. When they placed
those sweet, screaming little babies twice in my arms,
everything flew into perspective. The pictures of that day with
my partner and my children communicate different feelings
inside me that I would always cherish. When I look at those
innocent eyes in the picture it highlights my identity as being a
protector and when I see my partner it communicates this
identity that I am now a single mother.

Being a single mom has made me to be a strong woman that

has been the impact on my identity. I would not be as
successful if I wasn’t a single mom who knew she had to do
everything by herself. It made me fight and work much
harder. Although being a single mom challenges the social
perceived identities of women as being soft, not being able
to handle pressure from home, school or work at the same
time. Religious and societal stereotypes still exist that look
down on single women as failures for not keeping a man or
having kids outside of marriage. Another is that single moms
are uneducated.
Being a single mom allows me to be bolder in all aspects of my life
because I am not doing it only for myself but for my kids. It has
changed how I communicate with the world, I no longer have fear or
the luxury of sitting back as I have the responsibility to shape my
kids future by being their example. Now for example I am able to
send back food that I don’t like whilst before I would have ate it, this
is to teach my son to be able to stand up for himself, in so doing it
has boosted my confidence and how I communicate in all spheres of
my life. It has taken me out of my comfort zone as being a single
mom you have to go on the scary theme park rides irregardless of my
fear with my kids, this has lead me to also face and conquer other
fears in my life.