When Lori Magnifico-Purta found herself as a single mother in 1997, she didn’t want to put her daughter in a traditional day care while she went to work.

So, she started her own day care facility.

Now called “A Karrasel Day Care,” Magnifico-Purta opened Magnifico’s Playhouse in Schiller Park. The facility serves kids from Franklin Park, Schiller Park and beyond.

Read more: http://elmwoodpark.suntimes.com/news/10424352-418/story.html

She struggled to make ends meet as a lone
parent in a one-bedroom flat  writing the books that would eventually
earn her a fortune.

But JK Rowling has discovered she
is not the first in her family to endure such difficult times – and is
in fact “descended from a line of single mothers”.

Read more: http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/people/rowling-comes-from-line-of-lone-moms-1.1111635

Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss releases her new album Kandi Koated, “the musical opus of a single mother looking for love” (BET).

Read more: http://musicremedy.com/k/kandi/album/kandi-koated-10111.html

Single mom brings innovative patent-pending product, Le bibble®, to the market to simplify and enhance baby bottle feedings

Online PR News – 13-December-2010 –RESTON, VA – Single mom entrepreneur and professional organizer, Michelle Cloney, has launched Le bibble® baby bottle bib, a patent-pending product designed to improve and enhance the baby bottle feeding experience for moms and their babies. Le bibble® is available for purchase online at www.lebibble.com.

Read more: http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/88060-1292258450-single-mom-invented-baby-product-to-revolutionize-baby-bottle-feeding.html

A Miss Great Britain contestant could be set to make history as the first ever single mother to win the competition.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1334998/Miss-Great-Britain-First-single-mother-reaches-final.html#ixzz16zIdsf6p

The notoriously shy writer, now worth an estimated £519million, gave an emotional account of the battle with her demons as she struggled to cope with being a single mother and an aspiring novelist. 

Read more: http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/201836/JK-Rowling-tells-Oprah-of-battle-with-her-demons-/

It’s hard going back to school as an adult learner, but if you’re a single parent, if you’re battling cancer, if you’re working multiple jobs, if you’ve been laid off, or if you are trying to realize dreams you never thought possible, the challenges may seem insurmountable. Charlene Clay and Stephanie Taylor are two single moms who have been meeting those challenges head on, and making ground. Their load hopefully became a little lighter this week when they were awarded the Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship for lifelong learners.

As the recession took their jobs over the last few years, plenty of people have turned to dessert for comfort. Denise Assad turned to it for a new career. After she was laid off in the middle of 2008 after years in public relations, advertising and design, the single mom ditched an unfruitful job hunt and decided to indulge in one of her passions: baking. Armed with her grandmothers’ cookbooks and farmers’ journals dating back decades, she started Bountiful Bakery last year and has been bringing lemon bars, carrot cake and more to Los Angeles ever since.  Read more: http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2010/09/x-questions-bountiful-bakerys-denise-assad.html