April 22

The Chicago Single Parenting Examiner listed iHeartSingle Parents number one in single parenting communities on the web.

From the article:

Whether you’re new to single parenting or an “old pro,” it’s vital that you build a support network of people you can trust.  You need to have people who understand what you’re going through and don’t judge you.  You need to have people who can let you vent when you need to, then give you a hug when you need it or a kick in the butt when you need it.  Below are some of the top single parent communities I’ve found on the web. Read More

iHeart  is proud to be  part of a wave of single parents who are “quietly rewriting the rules of dating with children.”

February 7, 2009 The Chicago Tribune featured a front page article on dating with children. The journalist contacted the creators of iHeartSingleParents.com as experts in the area of single parent social life.

From the Chicago Tribune Lifestyle Feature:

[Single moms] are wearing T-shirts proclaiming “Single Moms Rock the Playdates”; rallying around emerging blogs such as Ms. Single Mama (tagline: “Prince Charming can kiss my [butt]. Unless he manages to sweep me off my feet”); and finding friends through social networking sites such as iheartsingleparents.com.

“Single parents are coming out of the woodwork and are no longer ashamed of their status,” says Morgan Siler, 29, co-founder of iheartsingleparents.com, which went online a year ago and gets 200,000 page views a month.

Read the full article here.

Jan 17, 2009

Television interview on KOIN News 6 morning show regarding the launch of Single Parent Magazine and Single Parent Night Out .

Portland single moms Clare Bean and Morgan Siler are launching a print magazine this month called Single Parent. Just a bit over one year after they launched their successful online community IHeartSingleParents.com; which has been awarded one of the ‘Best Website for Divorced Parents and Separated Families’ by On Teens Today and featured on KOIN News 6, The Oregonian, Fox’s Mike and Juliet Show, and numerous prominent blog sites, Clare and Morgan are launching a print magazine and a series of events called Single Parent Night Out.

This all started with two young, dynamic Portland women who found themselves in the role of single Mom. At first it was lonely and they were both chaffing at the public’s stereotypical view of single parents. Then they met each other and realized that knowing another single parent helped. So, they decided to find a way to create a positive, healthy community of other single parents and see what they could do to change the way society views single parents. After all, there are nearly 14 million single parents in this country (and about 222,684 of them live right here in Portland), the vast majority of whom are doing a great job of providing for their children and creating a good life for their families. Today, the online community IHeartSingleParents.com is thriving and has a number of prominent single parent members, including:

• Dr. Leah Klungness, speaker and co-author of The Complete Single Mother
• Barbara Winter, speaker and author of Making a Living Without a Job
• Mari Gallion, author of The Single Mother’s Guide to a Happy Pregnancy
• Tommy Taylore, author of Single Parent Survival Guide
• Michael Shimberg, author of The Complete Single Father
• R.J. Jamarillo from SingleDad.com
• Simon Blackwell of HelpforDaddy.com

Single Parent magazine launching this month and includes a column by Dr. Leah Klungness and feature articles by prominent single parent writers such as Alaina Sheer from Ms. Single Mama, and Melissa Chapman, Family Editor at Single Minded Women. AND – with the exception of the owner of their publishing company, Clare and Morgan have assembled an all single-parent team to produce, write, and promote the magazine. Single Parent Night Out events are launching this month in Portland at the Barracuda, sponsored by Entercom (105.1 The BUZZ), DeKuyper, and Chanel Shavers, RE/MAX Equity Group, Inc, Broker. When polled, 91% of the IHeartSingleParents.com community said they would like to have monthly sponsored events so Clare and Morgan, along with SK2R Publishing, organized a monthly night out in Portland. They are planning to start launching in other cities later this year and this summer will have family events for the single parent community. Clare and Morgan are dedicated Moms, dynamic businesswomen, fun-spirited Portlanders, and creating a single parent revolution. I think they would make a great story for AM Northwest. If you’d like to set something up, please call Lura Frazey, Public Relations at 503-914-5810.
Download the Event Flyer:

I Heart Single Parents is ready to launch the magazine, Single Parent and the Single Parent Night Out!  Get ready for a night to remember, every month! Beginning January 23th, 2009, single parents now have a night to call their own! Single Parent Night Out is the third Friday of the month from now on.

Launching in Portland, OR, Single Parent Night Out promises to be a night of entertainment galore.  The first event also marks the launch of the magazine, Single Parent, the first print magazine dedicated to Single Parents living their “Happily Ever Now.”

Click to get $5 off the ticket price for this event not to be missed!

Don’t live near Portland and can’t attend? Don’t worry, Single Parent Night Out intends to make it’s way across the country to a city near you! Stay tuned. In the meantime, get your subscription to find out when the event is coming to you and much more!

Download the event flyer:

The international organization, Mercy Corps, and i Heart Single Parents have teamed up to further each other’s goals of humanitarian efforts.

In addition to providing a place for support and camaraderie online, the founders of iHeartSingleParents.com believe in giving back. One way for single parents to get out of a victim mentality is to look outside their lives at the world and take time to learn about issues around the world. To that end, they have decided to share Mercy Corps programs to their community and feature a different one each month. The parents on iHeartSingleParents.com have the option to give money to help support the community, and half of all the funds will go to the Mercy Corps program featured at that time.

I Heart Single Parents is featured on the Mercy Corps website, located here.

Mercy Corps is a non-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations. Supported by headquarters offices in North America and Europe, the agency’s unified global programs employ 3,500 staff worldwide and reach nearly 16.4 million people in more than 35 countries.

For more information go to their website at http://mercycorps.org/aboutus/overview.

iHeartSingleParents was proud to be selected as one of the best websites for divorced parents and separated families on Vanessa Van Petten’s On Teens Today.

Vanessa Van Petten’s is a parent-teen relationship expert and the author of the book, You’re Grounded, How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier, (having written the book when she was just a teen herself).

Blogs, books, websites, podcasts and other resources for Divorced parents and families  were selected and reviewed by teen reviewers who come from divorced families.

iHeartSingleParents was listed number one in the website category.

On 8/21/08 Clare Bean and Morgan Siler of i Heart Single Parents, the online community for single parents, were featured on the Portland area KOIN news 6. Here is the YouTube video of the news segment:

Click here to go to Koin’s website and read the story

The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper featured the article, Single Parents Take Online Community to Heart. It was in the SW Edition of the Oregonian, which gives a more “close up” look at news in the community. Holly Goodman, who also writes for First Wives World, submitted the article to the Oregonian. The article came out on Thursday, August 14th, 2008.

“Tired of the lack of a support network, two local moms made their own

Like many other moms-to-be, Morgan Siler and Clare Bean devoured every pregnancy guide they could get.”…read the full article on the Oregonian’s website, Oregonlive.com, here.

On Tuesday, August 12, 2008, Clare Bean, co-creator of iHeartSingleParents.com social network for single parents was featured on Fox’s national morning show, The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet. Bean and her 2 year old Colby were flown to New York City, from Portland August 11, and stayed at the Mela Hotel right at Times Square.

The segment topic was focused on being pregnant and single and it was called: “The Single Mom Survival Guide” with the question: “Why are more young women than ever raising babies alone? M&J meet 20 somethings who are trading the dance floor for diapers and find out how they are coping with life as a single mom?” The show revealed a surprising statistic, more than 40% of new moms are single parents.

iHeartSingleParents.com was called the “Survival Guide” for single moms. To view the interview click the link below:

http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/the-single-moms-survival-guide/

if you have trouble viewing it, click this link