Pallavi Gogoi

And, you know, a lot of the women I spoke to were doing this, finding creative ways to build that village of support.

That's so beautiful.

You know, Aisha, I wanted to share one last thought with you.

It's something that Lissa Tribetz told me, and it stayed with me for a long time.

And Lissa Tribette said she could hear that longing in their voice.

It's one of the reasons that she decided to lean in and take this path.

She didn't want to find herself later in life full of regrets.

It's powerful.

Thank you for having me, Aisha.

It's been a pleasure.

I think increasingly the picture of families in America is completely shifting and it really is time to hit reset on the narrative of single motherhood because it is shifting in a way that is pretty dramatic.

It's not the old narrative anymore.

Women over 30 are better educated.

I know that they have more full-time jobs.

They have more agency.

And that basically puts them in a completely different starting point compared to single mothers of the past.

40% of babies that are born in America is to unmarried women.

What it says is that 4 in 10 women around you might be single mothers.

Some of the unmarried women might not be single mothers, but a lot of them are.

I think especially when it comes to black single mothers, that is the stereotype that I think a lot of the black single moms that I have talked to, they bring it up themselves.