Seattle's single moms find strength in one another

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

Randi Anderson knew she was on her own the day her son was born 22 months ago when she drove herself to the hospital.

Long before Anderson pulled up to Swedish Medical Center, her film-school boyfriend was gone. Twenty hours after she arrived at the hospital, she joined the growing ranks of single mothers. It is a group that often feels isolated, suffers higher-than-normal rates of depression and believes it carries a stigma in a culture that celebrates marriage.


"I certainly feel like it's written across my face," Anderson, 34, said. "We've been told it's not OK to be a single mom."

Mother's Day is increasingly celebrated without fathers in this country. In 2004, 36 percent of all births were to unmarried women, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, even as the teenage pregnancy rate fell.

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