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Single parents don’t get enough credit. Single moms certainly don’t get enough love, but can you believe that single dads used to get so much shade that a court automatically gave his kids to the state when the mother died? Let’s take a look at what single fatherhood is looking like back then and now.

Phoebe Gavin

Oct 30, 2014

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