Single parenthood
Subject in Parenting
Single parenthood has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Anne LamottAmerican writer and essayist, author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions and Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Lamott says no one was writing about the boredom, exhaustion and ambivalence of caring for an infant, so she did.
“It just wasn't that a mother or a parent was writing about how bored you can be with an infant and how exhausting it is all the time, how ambivalent you feel”
TED Radio Hour: Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott (Jul 31, 2026) · Listen from 28:57
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- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
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Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne LamottTED Radio Hour · Jul 31, 2026 · 50 min
Writer Anne Lamott talks with Manoush Zomorodi about writing, alcoholism and recovery, faith, single motherhood, her son's addiction, death and turning 70.