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Recent Examples of fancy-freeConjure up visions of the footloose and fancy-free summers of your youth, and recollections of boardwalk strolls, ice cream in hand, may come to mind.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
7 June 2025
To claim Head of Household (HOH), the taxpayer generally must be unmarried (single, legally separated, divorced, or widowed) or be considered unmarried, pay more than half the cost of maintaining the home, and have a qualifying person.
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Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
While church policies emphasized that unmarried women had the right to keep their children and the children had a right to remain with their mothers, staff often ignored this guidance and worked closely with adoption agencies, researchers found.
Britain’s mea culpa follows apologies from Scotland, Wales, the Church of England and other nations, as countries confront postwar policies that separated unwed mothers and infants.
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Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
To protect the family’s social standing, she is sent to a home for unwed mothers.