‘Race’ and ethnicity have been muted features of British
academic social policy debates around lone motherhood and in the stance
taken by
organisations representing lone parents. However, black lone motherhood
is now receiving attention in both black, and white-dominated
media. In this article, we examine the ways different groups of people
in
Britain address – or avoid – black lone motherhood. We raise
a number of
questions for social policy researchers to consider around whether and
how black lone motherhood may be constructed and discussed.