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Sex and the Single Parent

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I am a devoted parent. I do everything for my kids and put them first. I know that it has to be that way because they're young and I'm the one they have to look to and rely on. But my own loneliness has just made me sink and feel so low. This book helped me understand that my kids can't meet and make up for my adult needs for understanding and companionship. That's a whole different world. I feel relieved hearing other single parent's stories about putting your kids ahead of you but still having to have a world of friends including male friends. I have begun slowly to date. Some of the stories in the book are a hoot and I have had a few corkers. I felt supported by the sharing in this book.

You know, no one said it would be easy but when you have kids, no matter what happens, you have to find a way to stand up and stand by them. The stories in 'Sex and the Single Parent' helped me find some strength and some humor in getting my son past his youth in one healthy piece. I'm trying anyway. Thanks.

I have so many friends who are single parents and it is truly upsetting to see how they are out finding a social life when their kids need them. I got this book recommended to me and have been buying copies for my friends. The advice is helpful in that it balances grown up needs with kid's needs. There has to be a way for people to be less neglectful and still have a life. This book points you in the right direction.

I have been so drained with all the things I have to balance as
a single mother and many stories in this book gave me support to get through.So many times my kids ask me questions and I'm at a loss about what to say. The book gives me lots of ideas about how to talk to them and to myself.

Page 86 could have been written for me. My live in partner and my 11 year old are suddenly at each other's throats and I feel caught in the middle. One of the stories in the book was exactly about what's been going on in my house. I actually followed this advice and the tension is almost completely down now. I stayed out of it
and stopped being forced to take sides. I just listened and got them to say what they each wanted. We've been going from there.
It's a relief.

Written by a single author with no children of her own, I found this book to dole out extremely permissive wishy-washy advice that advises parents to coddle their children and permit poor behavior. Very new-agey, progressive nonsense!

I wish this book was a requirement for every parent seeking divorce. I have a yahoo group called Single Parent USA, and I'd love to make this required reading for each member.

(Someone asked for url: groups dot yahoo dot com/group/SINGLEPARENTUSA/)

This book gives a lot of practical advice about dating and being a parent. I see so many times single parents getting into relationships and just jumping in with both feet and not thinking about their children and what they are facing.

Every single adult deserves a social life, whether they are a parent or not, but you have to be careful and think of the kids. We all know that you can't just shut off the sex drive because you had kids and are single, but at the same time there is a right way and a wrong way to go about dating as a single parent.

This book gives realistic advice from both angles. A lot of single parent books are geared just to the single mother, but these days there are a lot of single father raising up the children most, if not all the time. This goes to both types of single parents equally.

I've read this book once, and I think I'll go back to again and again, just for advice on certain situations that will come up as my children get older.

If you are a single parent, the please for the sake of your children read this book. Having a relvolving door for boyfriends/girlfriends (that your children see), does effect your children majorly! You may not think it matters, but it does. Just go talk to some adults whose parents did that to them, I have and they were greatly effected!

Also, those single parents not sure about dating or hearing negative comments from family members, "You're a mommy/daddy, you don't need to date. Do you really need someone else to be happy?" This is the book that says you have the right to date and be happy with someone else and it gives several tag lines to throw it all back in their faces.

I only wish I'd bought it when I first got divorced three years ago!

Against the negative reviews this book got in the beginning. Perhaps you all make yourself out to be the perfect parent, but there are some of us who do need this advice and need this kind of help. And there are some that you need to slap them in the face with this book!

There is good advice in this book and even if the author does not have children she is educated. Just because you are a parent doesn't mean you know it all!

You should read this book, despite what those others had to say! It is good advice.

Coming from a woman who has no children of her own, I find it very interesting that she considered herself expert enough to write a book. Most people giving out the advice on children, don't have any of their own. I thought this was a wishy washy endless diatribe for the permissive, new age parent. Lots of psychobabble nonsense that believes children should control their parents and we should sit back, smile and analyze..Save your money!

My sister got divorced about 8 months ago after an 8 year mariage and two children. She has been on a dating frenzy, leaving her children with sitters and relatives. I know she's upset and scared but the kids are going to and are paying. I got her this book to
try and help her be more sensible. She didn't listen to me or my parents who came off like lecturers. But the stories of so many parents putting things together after a break up has made a dent in how she considers what she's been doing. It's good to have a book with other voices. A video would be great.

I've read a bunch of different books on the subject and didn't find this one to impart anymore wisdom. Its for the parent who answers to their child and not to themselves. Its written in a very stodgy, unhumanistic way that pretty much says, "please your kids before evr pleasing yourself". From the advice given, I am wondering if either author even has any teenager children of their own. I would suspect not!