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Welcome to this dirty Motherpucker.

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House,

the founder of Motherpucker and my best mate, Polly Hazard, in the house.

Hello, friends. Hello, friends. You always sound like a really awkward character

from the Nightgarden when you say, hello, friends.

I always feel like a children's presenter just a nath one

no I was saying really awkward character okay I catch a drift

I say no more so this episode big hot topic I write a column for the

telegraph on my recent divorce and navigating what I believe is correctly termed as co-parenting.

But in this article, I reference the fact that on the time that I'm looking after my children,

without my partner there, because we are divorced, I am indeed a single mum.

Now, this kicked up a lot of discussion.

Some people wanting to reclaim the term single mum. Now this kicked up a lot of discussion. Some people wanting to reclaim the term

single mum and not to have like the bad rap around it. Do you remember single parents alone

together in about a boy? They're all in those oversized cardigans chanting and looking really despondent.

No, there's a power in motoring solo when it comes to parenting. Others who've

been widowed, we can get into this, who have maybe gone through a donor journey and are genuinely

solo parenting. That's come to the table. And then there's, like I said, where I've placed

myself after a lot of discussion is probably co-parenting. But I want to know what the actual definitions are, because

I had a fair few people say, you're not a single parent. And I was like, well, the way I

determine it is I am single, so I, you know, was divorced. And when I

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