We hear hundreds of stories from single parents each year. Read some of these stories here, using our topic filter to help you find stories that are relevant to you.
When I became a single parent I had six children at home. It was a time of huge change and I didn’t know where to start. I felt completely on my own, I had nowhere...
Julia is a single mother with 2 kids. Originally from Brazil, she came to the UK to study and now works full time as a Violence Against Women and Girls advisor.
When I first started my journey as a single parent, I was fairly young. At the time I did not have a support network, my education being secondary school level, and I was on a...
Tracy is a single mum to a son aged 18 and a daughter aged 11. She has been a single parent ever since her son was born.
As a single parent I’ve always had to be self-reliant. I was even in the labour room on my own when my son was born! But I’ve also learned that it’s important not to be...
by Professor Patricia M. Thane, visiting Professor in History at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of a number of works including ‘Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England’, a history of Gingerbread...
By Dr Sue Jones. Sue has taught at Birkbeck, University of London and University of Plymouth. She lives a double life, researching seventeenth century piracy and working in the Gingerbread advice team.
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) is...
By Dr Sue Jones. Sue has taught at Birkbeck, University of London and University of Plymouth. She lives a double life, researching seventeenth century piracy and working in the Gingerbread advice team.
The novels of Charles...
By Dr Sue Jones. Sue has taught at Birkbeck, University of London and University of Plymouth. She lives a double life, researching seventeenth century piracy and working in the Gingerbread advice team.
As you enter Brougham Castle in Cumbria you see a memorial. This was erected in 1656 by Lady Anne Clifford in commemoration of the last time she saw her mother, Margaret. As a single parent...
by Sue Jones. Sue has taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and University of Plymouth. She lives a double life, researching seventeenth century piracy and working in the Gingerbread advice team.
It is often difficult to...
Four years into my single parent journey, an email landed in my inbox asking me to take part in Gingerbread’s centenary celebrations and I knew we had to get involved.
I found Gingerbread in the toughest...
Unexpectedly becoming a single parent to three small children in the summer of 2019 was a huge blow. The rug had been pulled from beneath us.
It was a very traumatic time for me and my...
I’m originally from India and have been now living in London for 17 years. Once I settled in London, I had an arranged marriage and my wife came over from India (arranged marriages in India...