Feminists

I had no family in this part of the country to help with daycare, I was living illegally in housing I wasn't eligible for and praying nobody would report me, and for a while was working full time plus got an unwanted recall notice back into the army reserves. The ex for a time dropped off the face of the earth, and I lived in fear of being thrown in jail for being AWOL if I couldn't find someone to watch my kid at 6am on weekends. The M-F job was an hour commute each way, and I had to leave home before any daycares opened, so she ended up having to commute with me. And I couldn't put her in a public school because it was before schools of choice were available, so she couldn't attend a public school near my work - and couldn't attend one in our neighborhood because of latch key hours not being long enough to account for that commute issue.

For me it wasn't homework or soccer cleats; the whole day-to-day survival thing is what sucked.