History Main / GlamorousSingleMother

* Mia from ''{{Degrassi}}'' started out as a subversion of this. Then they had her mom somehow find a way to stay home with the kid while Mia became a model.

* Lisa from ''{{Supernatural}}''. She also has a ridiculously nice house, even though she doesn't have an especially good job and is raising a kid on her own.

This trope, coupled with BabiesMakeEverythingBetter can create some dastardly UnfortunateImplications in that they make getting pregnant appear to be a substantially less physically and emotionally draining task than it really is. It's probably not coincidental that this trope almost always involves upper-middle-class women, as opposed to the working poor.

* Averted on ''{{CSI}}''. Catherine notoriously has trouble balancing finding time for Lindsey with working nights at the crime lab.

* Sandy from ''Film/TheRebound'' invokes this trope, and hires a nanny so she can work the hours she needs to.

* Sandy from ''Film/TheRebound'' invokes this trope, so that she has to hire a nanny so she can work the hours she needs to.

* Sandy from ''Film/TheRebound'' is a subversion in that she has to hire a nanny so she can work the hours she needs to.

* Probably the most famous invocation of this trope is the title character on ''MurphyBrown''. Dan Quayle famously attempted to question the UnfortunateImplications this trope creates- and ended up the target of ridicule for suggesting that television could influence people like that. Interestingly, [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,319786,00.html Candice Bergen herself]] thought Quayle had a point.
* ''GilmoreGirls'' uses this, but not in the backstory when Lorelai and the infant Rory were taken in by the owner of the Independence Inn, Mia, where Lorelai became a maid. When the show starts proper, daughter Rory is a teenager and the relatively easy time Lorelei has raising her can be rationalized along those lines. (And of course, Rory was the world's most well-behaved girl to begin with.)
** Lampshaded in an episode where Lorelei is invited to speak at the local highschool's career day about being a successful local business woman. The girls in the class assault her with questions about her infamous teen pregnancy instead of letting her give the speech she prepared. She ends up having to state outright that even though she sometimes wonders how her life could have turned out differently, she would not change what happened even if she could (because she would not trade Rory for anything). She even tries to make it clear that she considers herself very lucky in terms of how things have worked out for her despite her pregnancy preventing her from going to college. Later, [[StepfordSmiler the mothers of the girls]] don't care about the nuance of her response (which hinged on loving her daughter) and ambush her for supposedly "glorifying" teen pregnancy to their daughters. [[MamaBear Lorelei doesn't take kindly to the implication that she should have said she regrets her daughter.]]

* Lisa from ''{{Supernatural}}''. She also has a ridiculously nice house, even though she doesn't have an especially good job and is raising a kid on her own.

* Sandy from ''Film/TheRebound'' is a subversion in that she has to hire a nanny so she can work the hours she needs to.
* Averted on {{CSI}} Catherine notoriously has trouble balancing finding time for Lindsey with working nights at the crime lab.

* Averted on {{CSI}} Catherine notoriously has trouble balancing finding time for Lindsay with working nights at the crime lab.

* Averted on {{CSI}}-Catherine notoriously has trouble balancing finding time for Lindsay with working nights at the crime lab.

* Naomi Sandburg in ''TheSentinel'' travels constantly all over the world, has nice clothes, etc. in spite of being an ex-flowerchild with a son whose father she's not sure of (or won't admit.)

* ''GilmoreGirls'' uses this, but mostly in the backstory. When the show starts proper, daughter Rory is a teenager and the relatively easy time Lorelei has raising her can be rationalized along those lines. (And of course, Rory was the world's most well-behaved girl to begin with.)

* Probably the most famous invocation of this trope is the title character on ''MurphyBrown''. Dan Quayle famously attempted to question the UnfortunateImplications this trope creates- and ended up the target of ridicule for suggesting that television could influence people like that. Interestingly, [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,319786,00.html Candice Bergen herself]] thought Quayle [[StrawmanHasAPoint had a point]].

* ''The Perfect Man'' was mocked for its use of this trope ([[SoBadItsGood along with many other things]]). Jean's predilection of moving to a new state every time a relationship fails would rightly be viewed as a sign of mental illness in nearly any other movie. Here, though, the only apparent consequence of these actions is that her daughter Holly wants to keep her mom from being let down again. How Jean manages to do things like afford a two-bedroom apartment in New York on a baker's salary is...not explained.
** The indie film ''Tumbleweeds'' had a similar situation with the single mother, though a little more realistic in tone.

* ''Dante's Peak'': The character of Rachel Wando is not only a single mother, but is in charge of pretty much every single aspect of the titular town's business and politics including being the mayor, running a restaurant, etc. etc.
* Naomi Sandburg in ''The Sentinel'' travels constantly all over the world, has nice clothes, etc. in spite of being an ex-flowerchild with a son whose father she's not sure of (or won't admit.)

* Sandy from ''TheRebound'' is a subversion in that she has to hire a nanny so she can work the hours she needs to.

* Rachel on ''{{Friends}}''.

* Lisa from ''Supernatural''. She also has a ridiculously nice house, even though she doesn't have an especially good job and is raising a kid on her own.

This trope, coupled with BabiesMakeEverythingBetter can create some dastardly UnfortunateImplications in that they make getting pregnant appear to be a substantially less physically and emotionally draining task than it really is. It's probably not coincidental that this trope almost always involved upper-middle-class women, as opposed to the working poor that are affected by this in RealLife.