Single parenting
Encouragement for parents who are leading their family alone
Being a single parent means putting in double time. There’s no helper in the wings – no one to tag-team with when you need a break from the kids, the housework or anything else. It’s challenging, for sure. But you’re not invisible anymore. Today, one in five kids in Canada are being raised in a single-parent home. A full 80 per cent of those homes are parented by a single mom, but the number of single dads is growing too. We hope the resources on this page will encourage you in your role as a single parent. And we hope it will inspire the Church, too, to understand your needs better and redouble their efforts to come alongside you and your children.
Recommended resources
The Single Parent Confident and Successful by Linda Ranson Jacobs
Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad by Robert Beeson and Robert Noland
Raising Sons of Promise: A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys by Roland C. Warren
When Happily Ever After Shatters: Seeing God in the Midst of Divorce and Single Parenting by Sue Birdseye
The 10 Best Decisions a Single Mom Can Make by Pam Farrel and PeggySue Wells