Sheryl Sandberg salutes single mothers on Facebook: 'I didn't get how hard it is'

After her husband's death, the Facebook chief operating officer says she has begun to recognize the challenges faced by women raising children alone

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has marked Mother's Day by paying tribute to single mothers, saying she never realized how hard it was to be a single parent until her husband died a year ago.

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