About r/SingleParents
In its own words:
A place for single parents to communicate and connect!
Community guide
r/SingleParents (#744, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: A place for single parents to communicate and connect! Recent activity samples show 6.6 posts/day in recent samples (~100% text). Public rules we collected include: No personal attacks; No dating/sexual posts; Soliciting; Personal information; Be respectful.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own channel or shop. Civility/anti-harassment rules apply; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 8, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 143 subscribers (+0.01%). Among the 9 communities on our parenting list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/2007scape (#743) and ahead of r/PraiseTheCameraMan (#745) in our ranking.
What sets r/SingleParents apart
Compared with other large communities, r/SingleParents leans heavily on text posts (100% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/SingleParents went up from 1,421,981 to 1,423,208 subscribers (+1.2K, +0.09%). That is about 28 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/SingleParents talks about
We read the titles of 50 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “single”, “parent”, “child”, “father” and “parents”. Other frequent themes are support, dad, daughter, kids, custody and job. Recurring phrases include “single parent”, “child father”, “child support” and “single father”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Activity and best time to post
r/SingleParents gets about 6.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 45,614 posts and 315,537 comments in total, about 6.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (12 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (3). Posting peaks around 00:00 UTC and is lowest around 06:00 UTC.
Rules of r/SingleParents
The moderators of r/SingleParents list 7 rules. In short:
- No personal attacks
- No dating/sexual posts
- Soliciting
- Personal information
- Be respectful
- Research & Surveys
- Absolutely no politics
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/SingleParents and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/SingleParents have?
r/SingleParents has 1,423,208 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #744 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,227 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/SingleParents?
r/SingleParents was created on Sep 8, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years.
How active is r/SingleParents?
Moderately: r/SingleParents gets about 6.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 45,614 posts and 315,537 comments. In a sample of 50 recent posts we counted 48 different authors.
When is r/SingleParents most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 00:00 UTC, with the fewest around 06:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/SingleParents about?
The community describes itself as: “A place for single parents to communicate and connect!” Recent post titles often mention single, parent, child, father and parents. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/SingleParents safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/SingleParents as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/SingleParents?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/SingleParents accepts both text and link posts, with galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “No personal attacks”; “No dating/sexual posts”; “Soliciting”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/SingleParents?
Communities with similar topics include r/entitledparents (2M), r/digitalnomad (2.4M), r/FreeEBOOKS (2.4M), r/insaneparents (1.4M) and r/childfree (1.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/SingleParents.