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How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America

Single mom Adrienne Rumley gets herself and her 2-year-old daughter, Lorelei, ready in the wee hours of the morning in Winchester, Va. Her mornings, days and evenings operate with clockwork precision to fit all the pieces of her life together.

Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.

(Image credit: Maansi Srivastava)

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