The Second-Worst Thing That Can Happen as a Single Parent
Things just went from bad to worse.
Published in
4 min readMar 16, 2022
I grew up with a single-earner parent. My mom took the occasional side job to help pay the bills but my parents were old-school; my dad was the only one who worked.
He had a lifelong government job that allowed him to retire with a cushy pension after my parents paid off their…