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Author: Melissa Stephenson

Melissa Stephenson’s writing has appeared in publications such as Lit Hub, The Washington Post, ZYZZYVA and Fourth Genre. Her memoir, Driven, was released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in July of 2018. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her two kids.
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From Latchkey to Lock-in: Solo Moms Don’t Get to Choose Between Parenting and Providing

From Latchkey to Lock-in: Solo Moms Don’t Get to Choose Between Parenting and Providing

Melissa Stephenson

Many women in many dual-parent households have dropped out of the workforce during the pandemic to carry this domestic load, but most solo moms can’t do that. We have to keep the plates spinning as best we can. I wonder about all the other pandemic lock-in kids living in single-mother households—roughly one quarter of the U.S. population.

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Thelma, Louise and #MeToo

Melissa Stephenson

I’m fed up with the Midwestern grin-and-bear-it notion of strength I was raised on, stoicism tempered with niceness. On the plane, the ending of Thelma & Louise made the 40-something me cry because I have driven off too many cliffs in this lifetime already.

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