Shout out to all moms out there! It’s your special day. Parenting isn’t always easy, and single and adoptive parents sometimes have even more difficulties to face as parents. Despite the struggles, year round you are there to provide love, nurturing and support to care for your child and give them the best chances at a happy life.
The nuns at St. Elizabeth’s Girls Academy serve as adoptive moms to the students in a way. They take in orphaned children and provide the same nurturing, guidance and care at a time when children need it most.
In honor of all the adoptive moms out there, we wanted to give a special shout out to five celebrity women who were brave enough to take on adopting a child as single moms. They prove that while adopting children and single parenting can be difficult, it’s a worthwhile endeavor, because every child deserves the chance at a happy home life.
Sheryl Crow – A powerful female role model and leader in the music industry, singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow has always remained independent and chosen to carve her own path. After breaking up with then fiancé, Lance Armstrong, and amidst battling breast cancer, Crow still went after her dream to become a mom and adopted her first son Wyatt Steven Crow in April 2007. Three years later she adopted a second son Levi James Crow. Crow not only rocks as a musician, but as a single mom too!
Kristin Davis – Best known for her roles as Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place and Charlotte York on Sex and the City, Kristin decided to adopt a daughter, Gemma Rose Davis in 2011. Between her charitable efforts in saving endangered Elephants, her acting career, and her most important role – being a mom, she doesn’t see herself getting married anytime soon!
Sandra Bullock – This Miss Congeniality is known for always staying true to herself and pursuing her passions – all while doing it with wit, style and class. Although Bullock began the adoption process with her then hubby, Jesse James, in 2009; in 2010 after the couple split Bullock announced that she would be finalizing the adoption as a single parent. Bullock proves that adopting isn’t a means to an end of achieving the perfect nuclear family. It’s about forming a bond with a child and giving them your love, time and affection.
Mary-Louise Parker – Leading lady and Best Actress Golden Globe Award Recipient, Mary-Louise Parker is a critically acclaimed actress best known to the public as Nancy Botwin on Showtime’s TV series Weeds. However, we bet her adoptive daughter Caroline “Ash” Aberash Parker will say her most acclaimed role is simply being her mom. Parker adopted Caroline from Ethiopia in 2007.
Diane Keaton – Diane Keaton is known for playing strong, powerful female roles in great films such as Father of the Bride, The First Wive’s Club, Something’s Gotta Give and so many more… Keaton carries these roles into her personal life, proving you don’t need a partner to be a great parent. Keaton has adopted two sons Dexter (born 1995) and Duke (born in 2000) and is raising them as a single mom.
Being a parent isn’t easy. It gets even more complicated being a single, adoptive parent. Shout out to all the moms this Mother’s Day for giving children, biological or not, the love and care they deserve!
