In todays episode I speak to Ruth, a single mum who works in the charity sector. She has two young boys who she has raised solo since her eldest was six months old. Her first was conceived through marriage, and the second via donor conception.
Ruth has been writing about single parenting for over six years on her blog Ellamental Mama, trying to raise understanding of the realities faced by single parents - the good, bad and the ugly.
Her writing has been featured in The Guardian, The I Paper and The Metro, amongst others.
In 2020, Ruth set up the Single Parent Rights campaign to push for changes to UK law to address the ongoing discrimination of single parents after helping to lobby for the introduction of single parent support bubbles in the first UK lockdown.
In todays episode we discuss:
and much more!
S7: E3 Solo Parenting with Holly
S7: E2 Solo Parenting with Sarah @singlemammybychoice
S7: E1 Cultural considerations with Jayneel
S6: E10 Inconceivable - the Solo Parent Memoir
S6: E9 Solo parenting abroad with Jess
S6: E8 Solo parenting with Talia
S6: E7 All things Solo Parenting with @Claire_Needs_Coffee
S6: E6 Deciding on the ethnicity of your sperm donor
S6: E5 Solo Parenting Twins When One Has a Complex Heart Condition
S6: E4 Making the decision to use double donation and to have 2 children solo
S6: E3 When the hardest part of the journey isn’t the decision to start
S6: E2 Solo Parent and Doula, Amelie
S6:E1 No Need For Prince Charming
S5; E10 Chatting to donor conceived Skyler who was raised by a solo mum
S5: E9 Being connected to donor siblings families as a baby
S5: E8 Hearing from donor conceived Natasha who was raised by a solo mum
S5: E7 Being donor conceived and using donor conception to conceive
S5: E6 Julianne Boutaleb, Perinatal Psychologist
S5: E5 Finding out you’re donor conceived in your teens
S5: E4 Hearing from the US Donor Conceived Council
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