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WITH divorce at an all-time high, the number of single parents is rocketing, bringing a plethora of problems unique to one-parent households (widowed parents face many of the same issues).

These are on top of all the normal parenting pressures. To top it off, a single parent has no spouse to give them practical help or emotional support when the going gets tough. So what do you do? Most parenting books, columns and articles don’t address problems unique to single parents, and there are plenty of them.

They start the moment the parents tell the children a separation is coming and range from the mundane to the heart-wrenching. The questions here come from letters received in response to my books on the subject and my website – www.thesoloparent.com.

via Cynthia MacGregor on single-parenting – Scotland on Sunday.