OK, so I didn’t open the article itself after reading the entire thing posted here. In any case, I didn’t say that there was no husband and father in the family situation, simply that she made no mention of him in the article.
Indeed, she didn’t.
I read another article of hers,
http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/19/why-im-grateful-god-didnt-answer-my-prayer/
Very poignant.