Single Parents: Don’t Leave Your Children’s Future to a Crowdfunding Site
When it comes to parenting, your to-do list can seem never-ending, from signing up for school activities, to projects around the house, to planning for the future. It seems as soon as you check something off, a few more to-dos jump right on the list. If you’re a...
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Single Parents: Don’t Leave Your Children’s Future to a Crowdfunding Site
More than a quarter of single parents surveyed (28%) say they’d let others raise money on a crowdfunding site to provide for their children if something happened to them.
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