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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 3
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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For older Americans, social isolation is a public health crisis. As we age, our relationships evolve and our communities change — how do we accept ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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We continue National Hispanic Heritage Month with essayist and fiction writer, Sergio Troncoso. A 2020 International Book Award winner for Best Col...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Mossy Oak's Bobby Cole
Tin Roof Project #16, featuring Mossy Oak's Bobby Cole telling his story of being at his hunting camp and what can happen in the middle of the nigh...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00