For Bernie Sinclaire, coparenting three little kids in the Big Apple is like a dream \u2014 mostly because she\u2019s raising tots with another mom instead of an annoying man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city gal\u2019s \u201cmommune,\u201d a living arrangement in which single mothers split the bills and burdens of bringing up babies, is a \u201cBarbie Dream House\u201d-esque haven where she and her two sons live in pinkish harmony with mom Anabelle Gonzalez and her young daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fairytale life with \u201cNo Prince Charming required,\u201d say Sinclaire and Gonzalez, two in the rising army of solo mamas parenting together rather than going it alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sinclare (Right) and best friend Anabelle moved in together to coparent their kids under one roof in New York City. Instagram\/berniesinclaire<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and my best friend are two single moms, we live in New York City and we\u2019re raising our kids under one roof,\u201d explained Sinclaire, 38, in a viral Instagram vid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She and Gonzalez, 39, both teachers at an all-girls\u2019 school in the Bronx, agreed to cohabitate and coparent roughly two years ago, following their respective breakups with ex-partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The besties\u00a0now reportedly reside<\/a>\u00a0in a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1,200 sq ft apartment a block from the Hudson River in Manhattan\u2019s swanky Hamilton Heights. The building includes a gym, a playroom and laundry facilities. And their children, all under age 10, happily coexist in a pseudo-siblings bubble they call the \u201ckidsune.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinclaire says she and Gonzalez are creating a dream life for themselves and their kids in a \u201cBarbie\u201d inspired apartment in New York City. Instagram\/berniesinclaire<\/p>\n Sinclaire and Gonzalez did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe decided, since this working so well for us\u2026that this wasn\u2019t going to be something temporary,\u201d Sinclaire continued in the clip. \u201cWe upgraded our apartment to fit our family, and we are building it out to be long-lasting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t something temporary. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re waiting to find a boyfriend or a man or a traditional family,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is the kind of lifestyle that works for us \u2014 a women-centered lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s the mother of all setups.\u00a0<\/p>\n With the cost of living\u00a0at an alarming high<\/a>, and\u00a0the prospect of finding a forever romance<\/a>\u00a0at a depressing low, moms like Sinclaire and Gonzalez are creating ladies-only live-in communities from coast-to-coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, there are upwards of 10.9 million one-parent families with a child under the age of 18,\u00a0according to the US Census Bureau<\/a>, which noted that 80% of those one-parent families were maintained by a mother.<\/p>\n Single mothers around the nation are forming \u201cmommunes,\u201d sharing the cost, demands and perks of parenting under one roof. Monkey Business \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n As the financial commitment for raising a child in the US has reached a startling $300,000,\u00a0per recent reports<\/a>, joining forces and pooling resources has served as a lifesaving hack for singletons with kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kristin Batykefer and Tessa Gilder, of Jacksonville, Florida,\u00a0built a mommune\u00a0<\/a>shortly after the pandemic, compounded by their individual divorces, in the early 2020s. The twosome has famously boasted about the benefits of shacking up and teaming up online, bragging \u201cLife. Is. Good. Baby!,\u201d\u00a0in a recent post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shannon and Cheyanne, best friends and coparents based in Nevada, too, attested to the goodness of going through life\u00a0with another mother<\/a>\u00a0on their own social media account last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLife is easier with a village,\u201d Shannon captioned a TikTok snippet, which\u00a0garnered over 9.5 million views<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe both very much like men,\u201d she insisted of her and Cheyanne\u2019s sexualities, \u201cbut two women splitting [the] house and kids [and] chores has proven easier than with men.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinclaire and Gonzalez echoed similar sentiments across the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLess work. More \u2018me\u2019 time. More joy. No default parent,\u201d the platonic pals listed as their top four perks of becoming partners in parenthood. \u201cLiving motherhood dream. No Prince Charming required.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, digital detractors often denigrate their seemingly idyllic, girl-powered lifestyle, leaving comments like \u201cI hope you don\u2019t have boys\u2026 god help them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A separate cyber critic wrote, in part, \u201cSeems like a bunch of women who\u2019ve been hurt before and instead of moving forward they adopted this new culture of hating men as if we\u2019re all oppressing females\u2026Adults thinking this way is sad.\u201d<\/p>\n But rather than \u201csad,\u201d Sinclaire says she and Gonzalez are glad to have one another for support.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSociety tells us that if we want to be single mothers, we better be really rich or be prepared to be really broke at the mercy of child support payments, crippling childcare expenses and having to take out our own garbage to boot,\u201d she said in an Instagram testimonial<\/a>. \u201cBut we said \u2018No.\u2019 We said \u2018Matriarchy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe said we\u2019ll keep the single motherhood and the dual income. We said we\u2019ll ease household labor with sisterhood. We said we\u2019ll center our kids by putting our own needs on the table too,\u201d she continued. \u201cSometimes the weight of motherhood still sneaks up on us, but we always have the space to tend to it, fold it and put it in its place.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t