The Complete Single Mother
Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Concerns
Winner of the prestigious "Parent's Guide Award"

Filled with expert information and pragmatic advice, this comprehensive and practical reference explains what over twelve million single mothers need to know to overcome the challenges of daily life. This book answers the questions you may have about single motherhood but were either too busy, too afraid, or didn't even think to ask -- questions concerning custody issues, managing your finances, dealing with an irresponsible ex, handling work pressures, collecting child support, and many, many more. This book offers solutions for changing families, showing you how to help your children through divorce, build confidence, find male role models, and how to respond to tough questions like "Where's Daddy?"

The Complete Single Mother doesn't forget your child's most important asset -- You!  With creative thinking, planning, and The Complete Single Mother, you can not only raise happy, healthy, and productive children, you can retain your sanity -- and maybe even your sense of humor!.

Praise for The Complete Single Mother
Third Edition

The Complete Single Mother is the ultimate go-to guide for single mothers. Whether you are single by change or single by choice, you'll find a wealth of helpful information in this practical, real-world guide to mothering on your own. I have recommended earlier editions of this book to countless mothers, and will continue to recommend the third edition as a "must read" resource.
Ann Douglas, author of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books

The Complete Single Mother offers comfort, common sense, experience, encouragement and more than a few laughs. The sophisticated and psychologically savvy advice is invaluable no matter what the single mother challenge. This book is an absolute "must get" for all single moms.
Tammy Jones, founder of www.SingleRose.com - Resource for Single Mothers

The Complete Single Mother is just what it says---complete! There is no other book about single parenting like this one, which has an answer for any question a single parent would ask. Readers are sure to find their particular situations and interests within these pages, which can offer much needed comfort to single parents who may feel alone and misunderstood.
Diane Chambers Shearer, author of Solo Parenting: Raising Strong and Happy Families

As I read this new version of the absolute single mother "bible" I couldn't believe how much incredibly important information delivered with heart, hope and laughter is packed in. If you are a single mom, toying with the idea or know one . . . You must get this book.
Patrice Karst, author of The Single Mother's Survival Guide 

Single moms will refer to this marvelous book time and again. It offers practical advice on everything including pregnancy, children with special needs, money issues, relationships and stepfamilies. And it does so with encouragement, intelligence and humor. It is the Single Mothers' Bible!
Ellie Slott Fisher, author of::
Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe: The Single Mother's Guide to Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly

From conception to the teen years and from de-stressing to dealing with the ex from hell, The Complete Single Mother is the definitive guide to life for solo moms. Don't consider single motherhood without it.
Ariel Gore, editor/publisher of Hip Mama

This is the most helpful, empowering resource single moms have looked to for over a decade. Written in a friendly and supportive way; no question goes unanswered, no topic avoided. 
Sheila Ellison, author of The Courage to be a Single Mother

The Complete Single Mother is a tremendous gift to women who are raising children alone . . . Inviting and non-judgmental, this guide draws readers into its wise counsel on what it takes to be a response, empathetic parent. The strong message that single parents are not alone, and they can succeed as other single parents have done and are doing is a gift.
Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., author of Raising Boys Without Men

Comprehensive and compassionate. The Complete Single Mother will guide you to make good decisions for your children and yourself. Each updated edition only makes it more relevant and reliable.
Barbara Meltz, parenting columnist for The Boston Globe

City Parent, Canada’s largest circulation parenting publication, named The Complete Single Mother one of the ten “must read” parenting books: “The Complete Single Mother zeroes in on the unique challenges faced by single moms.  The result is a fabulously comprehensive must read guide for single moms.”

"A thorough guide for single moms of all stripes" – Child magazine

"This handbook for single mothers offers practical advice on meeting the challenges of parenting without partners. In part 1, Engber and Klungness look at the various ways women become single mothers with more than nine million American women raising children alone by choice or" out of necessity, it is surprising that most books on pregnancy and parenting still assume that the two-parent family is the norm. Written by single mothers...offers useful, practical advice for women raising children alone. Includes information on medical care, financial management, legal matters, career planning, social life, support networks, and dealing with family members. Engber and Klungness, writing in the tone of self-help books, cover pregnancy and the baby's first year but place more emphasis on the mother's self-esteem and other psychosocial issues. They also include child-development and parenting information about older children as well as a bibliography and resource list. Comprehensive. Highly recommended for all parenting collections." - Library Journal

"Wow!"  "Provides a world of support for women who often feel alone."- American Baby Magazine

"Essential reading for single moms!" - Working Mother magazine

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