Financial Relief for Single Parents: A Proven Plan for Achieving the Seemingly Impossible

The challenging spiral of financial hardship can overwhelm even the most buoyant soul. Few know this better than single parents who face the seemingly endless burden alone. As a single mom fending for herself, Brenda Armstrong learned this firsthand. She also learned how to turn her situation around. Both her personal discoveries and the key insights she gleaned from years of service alongside Larry Burkett are reflected in this proven plan for achieving the seemingly impossible. Financial Relief for Single Parents will put readers on a healthier financial path. By combining the practical, biblical principles and proven, achievable steps presented [...]

Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom

When the reality of separation, divorce, or widowhood sinks in, encountering life as a single mother can be an overwhelming experience. Share in the stories of other single moms who have faced past hurts, dealt with present fears, and built a future of promise, while they contended with life’s everyday pressures. Through the pages of this practical book, Michele Howe offers sensitive, compassionate advice for women who are confronting the challenge of being a single mom. Be encouraged; with God’s help, hope and healing are not only possible, but promised.Topics include:• Helping children cope• Strengthening family identity• Raising a masculine [...]

The Hidden Mission Field: Caring for Single Parent Families in the 21st Century

Here’s an opportunity to understand and reach the fastest growing segment of the population with compelling facts, no nonsense theological answers and hands-on tools for your ministry. “This book fills a niche never before addressed.” Linda Hunter, Editor, Single Parent Family magazine, Focus on the Family List Price: $ 12.95 Price:

Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman’s Guide

The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming and being a mother—includes the essential tools needed to decide whether to take this step, information on how best to follow through, and insight about answering the child’s questions and needs over time. Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for women looking for both support and insight. Based on extensive up-to-date research, advice from child experts and family therapists, as well as interviews with more than one hundred [...]

How Does It Feel to Be a Single Divorcee at a Wedding?

Article by Topinvitations I’ve been to two weddings since my divorce. The first was a cousin’s wedding that I attended with my parents and ex-boyfriend, and the second wedding was a close family friend’s where I had my sisters and parents to sit with; they served as a security blanket. I recently attended the wedding of a new friend. It was a spur of the moment decision that came about when he was kind enough to invite me, and I was honored. I originally had plans with a romantic prospect, but in the weeks leading up to it, I sensed [...]

How to be a great dad

Article by Paul Banas It seems obvious that everyone sets that standard themselves. Being a great dad isn’t achieving one set of measures, or even ensuring that your child confirms you’re a great dad whenever prompted. Being a great dad is an every day climb up the mountain, or a thousand-task test of parenting skills: patience, generosity, creativity, intelligence, wisdom. What works one day is a failure the next. Not all of us can stay at home with our kids, attend every concert and performance, or even make macaroni and cheese. Unlike moms, who seem to have more prescribed roles [...]

Step Parenting And The Problems Of Sharing Authority

Article by Donald Saunders Step parenting brings its own special problems as the new step parent is often caught in the middle between the biological parent and the children. Just how much of a problem you will encounter depends upon a whole variety of factors, not the least of which will be the degree of co-operation you receive from the biological parent and the ages of the children involved. The secret to successful step parenting lies first in clearly establishing your role with the biological parent because you will certainly have an uphill struggle if the two of you are [...]

Scholarships for Single Fathers: Are You Seeking For Cash For College?

Article by Thomas Anderson Scholarships for single fathers are increasingly becoming a lot more common in the times that we live in mainly because school tuition prices rise and your own earnings drops. Like the majority of unmarried daddies in today’s times, lots of you possess a preference to continue your education and learning so that you may not just go forward in the net income bracket, but likewise to guarantee your self that you’ll still have a job within the difficult times that have come; and most likely are approaching once more, to The U.S.A. Just like you may [...]

Top 10 Relationship Advice Tips for Single Parents

Article by Laura C. Ries It is important for single parents to take some time to develop relationships with other adults. Otherwise there will be a feeling of isolation and that you have to do everything that needs to get done. Here are some tips on creating great relationships with others. 1. Take your Time You may be tempted to start another relationship right away and go deep fast. However, building relationships take time. It has an ebb and flow to it. Give yourself time to heal from your split and let yourself meet people without setting expectations. 2. Define [...]

The Single Mom’s Devotional: A Book of 52 Practical and Encouraging Devotions

When Carol Floch realized that her marriage was about to end and that she was about to join the ranks of moms left to raise their children on their own, she could not stop crying. She mourned her shattered hopes and grieved the loss of the family she had always dreamed of. But mostly, she cried for her children. Into Carol’s grief, regret and fear, God’s Spirit came with a message from Psalm 84: “Build your nest near my altar, and I will be your children’s source of security, protection, provision and blessing. In The Single Mom’s Devotional, Carol tells [...]

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