The Single Mother's Book: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and Everything Else [Paperback]

Joan Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2005

This comprehensive guide features practical solutions for surviving and succeeding as a single mother.
This comprehensive guide features practical solutions for surviving and succeeding as a single mother. Anderson offers real answers to real problems, covering:
Children
Careers
Finances
Credit
Taxes
Insurance
Retirement
Affording your own home
Post-divorce legal concerns
Wills
Home Repair
Burglar-proofing your home
Blended families
Resources
Romance
Physical and emotional well-being
Starting your own single mother's group

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This is a sensible, well-organized, and well-written guide through the minefield of managing life as a single mother. The author was a facilitator for the Vanderbilt University Single Mother's Group and uses the real-life problems and solutions that have come out of it as examples. Topics as diverse as plumbing, raising psychologically as well as physically healthy children, and nutrition, are covered in brief narratives. Valuable more for inspiration and encouragement than for in-depth instruction, this is an affordable addition to life skills sections of public libraries. Single moms will appreciate it. Recommended.
-Anne Washburn, Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore Lib., Greensboro,
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"This is a sensible, well-organized, and well-written guide through the minefield of managing life as a single mother.... Single moms will appreciate it. Recommended." --Library Journal

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers; 2 edition (July 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561453277
• ISBN-13: 978-1561453276
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,091,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Single Moms Out There, June 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Single Mother's Book: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and Everything Else (Paperback)

I think that all single moms should get this book. With a baby on it's way in less than two weeks, I feel so much more at ease about bringing this baby into the world, and doing so with confidence. It's highly inclusive of financial, emotional, and time-management issues. Great guide to get you single moms started!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another helpful book - "On Your Own For The First Time", November 13, 2001

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Bethany Morton (West Chester, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Single Mother's Book: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and Everything Else (Paperback)

For another lifesaver for the single mom...."On Your Own For The First Time" by Jeff Bowers. For those mom's who find themselves having to do it ALL after years of having help, I found this book saved me on things I never knew and gave me great advice! What a guide, what a great tool!