Single Parenting and Money

What I'm doing to earn some extra $$$:

• Freelance social networking/marketing;
• Babysitting;
• Just sold some old baby stuff; and
• Writing articles (I've got my game face on now).

What I'm doing (or did) to help supplement my income:

• Applied for WIC (got accepted)
• Applied for Food Stamps
• Applying for financial aid for when the Bambino starts school or could otherwise be read as registering his Hawaiian background to the Kamehameha school system
• Applying for QLCC aid to help pay for childcare

But guess what...things are about to change but even so I'm still applying and trying to get any help I can get.

Why?  Because living in Hawai'i sucks - the cost of living is way beyond what people make around here...especially this single mama.  So a mama's gotta do, what a mama's gotta do to stay afloat.

Here's hoping the great change will happen in the next few weeks.

Questions of the universe

Q: Of the two, for who is single parenting easier?
a) Single mother who started from pregnancy?
b) Single parent from a divorce?

This question was raised while I was interviewing someone for an article this past Saturday. It's a great question and a good point. Different types of single parents exist in our world:

• Single mother from unplanned pregnancy
• Single mother from planned pregnancy [read artifical insemination]
• Single mother by choice adoption
• Single mother from a divorce
• Abandoned single mother
• Widowed single mother
• Widower(ed?) single father
• Single father from birth - the mother either abandons or simply chooses not to have custody of the child
• Single father from a divorce
• Single teen parents

So who is it easier for?

Also, I've noticed that there are more and more teen pregnancies happening in Hawai'i but does that mean that the majority of single parents in Hawai'i are teenagers? Or are they older single women with unplanned pregnancies or divorced single parents?

I'll be exploring these questions for awhile and will be following up on my Examiner.com page which sadly hasn't been updated for some time.