Single Parent Support
I recall two years ago when I sent my son off to kindergarten, I found myself
on the school playground eyeballing the ring fingers of the women and men
standing around me. I was a newly single parent looking for support, and there
was no way for me to discover who was a married and who was a single parent.
A year later I have surrounded myself with other female and male single
parents, and have found a niche for myself and my son. And that niche is
growing in size. So far we have 40 single parent men and women in our
elementary school single parent group. I was surprised to discover this group had never been organized before (even
though it is no small feat). After attending a PTA meeting at our school, I
was stimulated to form a single parent support group that catered to the
special and individual needs of single parents...the need for child-care
assistance, emotional and therapeutic support for themselves and their
children, educational information in the form of lectures, training seminars,
family and group activities, and social/ recreational activities for parent
and child. |
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