Lone Parent Survival Guide
There’s no such thing as a ‘typical’ lone parent family. Everyone’s situation is different, but one thing most lone parents share is the occasional need of a helping hand.
If you have been a lone parent for some time, perhaps you’ve coped with the immediate difficulties but are now facing longer term issues such as loneliness or wanting to go back to work. If you’ve just become a lone parent, you may still be reeling from the breakdown of your relationship or from the loss of a loved one. On top of the emotional stresses, there are a practical matters to deal with.
The Gingerbread Lone Parent’s Survival Guide is designed to help with the process of overcoming both the emotional and practical challenges that lone parents face. It is divided into sections, as listed below. In each section, lone parents are quoted talking about their own experience, and there are practical suggestions and contact details for further help.
The Survival Guide is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format, so you can read them on your computer screen, or you can download to your computer print them off.
You can download the whole guide (20 pages) Lone Parents Survival Guide, or you can just download the sections that interest you – they’re each between one and three pages.