Single-parent working women have the unshared responsibility for child rearing and wage earning in their families. This qualitative study of 30 employed single parents replicates previous findings of challenges in managing shortages of time, money, and energy. It also reveals serious concerns about failure to meet perceived family and societal expectations for living in a normal family with two parents. In order to meet the demands of single parenting, the women feel they must display behaviors which are contradictory to those they assumed they should exhibit if they were to remarry. Assisting single parents in recognizing and managing this paradoxical situation can prove a challenge to all who serve as family life professionals.
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