Flying Solo
An intimate, fly on the wall series talking to Kiwi whanau to find out what it takes to raise a child on your own.
Episodes
In the first episode, we meet Jo Whiu, a grandmother to seven young mokopuna. Daughter Lisa is a recovering P addict and has recently moved back home.
By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Winter's coming on, so the mattresses sprawl across the living room floor. When you've got seven mokopuna in a three bedroom house, that's the only way to make sure all the children can sleep inside.
At the Whiu "marae", summer means the t...
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets one of the minorities, Pakeha solo dad Warren. He tackles - with humour - co-parenting through two separations, a child with depression, alcohol and more.
Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide.
By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
"It doesn't have to be negative. It doesn't have to compromise your ability to be a good parent."
Warren's busy tying the shoelaces of 9-year-old s...
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets single-working parent Tamsyn Matchett who knows a thing or two about being discriminated against, especially overcoming the stigma around being a "brown, solo-mum".
By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Single-working parent Tamsyn Matchett knows a thing or two about being dissed.
"I've been wildly disrespected as a single parent. Just being a young mum in general. There's really a total lack of respect ... b...
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets a Wellington police constable who has been a solo dad full-time since his son was five.
In episode four of Flying Solo, Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets a Wellington police constable who has been a solo dad full-time since his son was five.
Henare Jones* will never forget the birth of his son Tama* sixteen years ago; it was an emergency c-section, very stressful. So what was it like holding your son for the first t...
Sleep deprivation will make you desperate. In episode five of Flying Solo, Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets a solo-parent who's in the majority - 33 year old Pakeha mother Imogen and her 4-year-old son Manea.
"There have been moments - especially when my son was quite young - he'd be lying there crying, and I'd just be so exhausted. Just not having that second person ... lying there crying in front of your baby. You desper...
Pregnant at 13. In the final episode of Flying Solo we meet junior squash champ Rhiarne, her toddler Braydon and the extended whanau embracing their teenage solo-mum.
"My mum and dad knew I was really scared. I was terrified. I didn't know what to do."
The first thing Rhiarne Taiapa did was lock herself away for weeks. She and her parents took down all social media. She 'disappeared' for the last term of year...
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