Articles about single parents
Coronavirus Q&A: Can children visit separated parents during lockdown?
Last updated: 03/28/2020
Coronavirus Q&A: Can children visit separated parents during lockdown? 25 March 2020 • 1:19pm Save Save Our experts will be answering your questions on parenting and custody...
Post Divorce Experiences: Become an Active Participant in Life! - Divorce Magazine
Last updated: 02/20/2020
Post-divorce is a turbulent time in one’s life. There are too many tasks and too little time to get everything done. It takes less energy to plop down on the couch and view...
This Is How Long It Takes New Parents to Get a Good Night's Sleep Again
Last updated: 02/07/2020
It takes six years before new parents get a good night’s sleep again, according to a new study. Because even once the night feedings end, children still wake up sick and have...
‘If something happens to me, what will happen to my girls?’
Last updated: 01/31/2020
“The siblings are always forgotten,” says Lynn McDonald, referring to her daughter Ellie, who is 11, as we discuss Lynn’s role as carer for youngest daughter, Daisy, who is...
How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer
Last updated: 01/20/2020
How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer 4th February 2019 Advice , blog It will inevitably be very difficult for children and young people when a parent is...
How Families Influence a Child’s Risk of Internet Abuse
Last updated: 01/13/2020
Our research suggests that positive parenting characterized by high levels of dialogue may work as a protective factor against Internet Abuse in particular. Across 25 European...
13 Life Lessons Dads Learned From Being Parents in 2019
Last updated: 12/19/2019
For dads, life lessons come in all shapes and sizes. Some are simple: don’t change a baby facing the wind. Others are more complex: Your moods effect your kids in ways you can’t...
The Problem with the Culture Problem | Oren Cass
Last updated: 12/18/2019
Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through repetition and iteration across generations, words can take on new...
Why do we pretend that one-parent families are no big deal?
Last updated: 12/17/2019
In the New York Times today, Christina Cross writes about “The Myth of the Two-Parent Home.” Her overall point is the single-parent homes aren’t the hellholes they’re made out...
One in four children grow up in a single-parent family – so why is there still a stigma?
Last updated: 12/08/2019
Given that one in four children now grow up in one-parent homes and that 42% of marriages end in divorce you might expect prejudice against single parents to be a thing of the...