Single Parenting Support Group

Today being raised by a single parent is not uncommon. About three in ten children live in a single parent home. The most common type of single parent home is one with only a mother. However, single father homes are the fastest growing type of family situation; 60% growth in the last ten years alone.

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ll47ll 12/15/2008

I'm new in this group too. How is everyone doing these days as a single parent? It is nothing new to me, considering it felt like I was a single parent before I was officially one. But just the same, it is exhausting.

Lee

deleted_user 12/15/2008

hi! yeah, i'm feeling overwhelmed too. doesn't matter that he wasn't plugged in, he was a spare set of hands and eyes lol!
at the moment i'm losing my house, consoling a lonely preschooler that thinks his daddy doesn't love him because he never calls or visits, and nursing a sick newborn back to health after a month in th ehospital while my STBX screws around and refuses to pay child support. then he calls me a loser in one breaht and tries to tell me he loves me and kisses me in the next. oh my, single parenthood is what i strived so hard NOT to end up doing when i became a "grown up"!
how are you holding up? how old are your babies?

ll47ll 12/16/2008

Much luck to you. I am doing ok, not great these last few days, but making it, I think. I am pretty strong-willed and am enforcing child support. Be strong and don't let him string you along. I know it's hard not to want to believe, but just think things through.

Lee

deleted_user 12/16/2008

Been single now for eight years, have two little boys and we have no money as I'm a 3rd year student at uni.

But I feel blessed, we have each other and that is all we want. If you are happy then they are too.

Rejoice in what you have - not what you don't!

Love and hope to you XX

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