The Complete Single Mother: Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Concerns

by Andrea Engber

Book Overview

Explores single parenting and offers advice on becoming pregnant, pregnancy and birth, raising children without a partner, and maintaining relationships beyond the family unit. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580623026
• ISBN13: 9781580623025
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for never-married single mothers

When I was pregnant I read a lot of books for single mothers and learned so many out there are for divorced mothers where the father is largely in the picture.This is the best book I found for single, never-married mothers where the father does not play a large role, if any. There is a chapter for divorced mothers, adoption, donor insemination, and widowed mothers. And many other chapters for all single mothers. There is a wonderful chapter to help explain where their father is. Which I am sure will come in handy in a few years when my son wants to know why his father is not around. I have loaned this book out to other single mothers and recommend it to all single mothers.

A Must Read for all single moms!

This is a wonderful book for all single moms. I am in a single moms group and anytime a new mom joins us I recommend this book. It touches on so many of the important topics that single moms face. I just can not say enough how important this book was to me when I first found myself as a single mom! This is probably one of the best single parent books out there!

Worth Its Weight in Gold for Single Mothers

Excellent source of practical information on meeting the emotional, psychological, financial, social and physical challenges of single motherhood. Appendices contain an expansive list of organizational resources and further reading for single mothers.Warning: The book starts out slowly with a political defense of single motherhood. The "cheerleading" tone of this section of the book sometimes takes on an aspect of blaming men for the plight of the single mother. Supportive and reassuring perhaps, but not conducive to taking responsibility for one's own actions in this reader's humble opinion. The author even goes so far as to promote the idea of voluntary single motherhood through artificial insemination if "Mr. Right" doesn't happen to come along. Some may find this liberalism to be annoying.Despite these minor flaws, the 1st half of the book contains a wealth of useful information and the book really takes off in the second half (presumbaly reflecting the division of labor between the authors). Here the everyday psychological, moral and practical dilemmas of single motherhhod are thoroughly vetted. Questions regarding everything from stress management to the inevitable conflicts of dating and parenting, raising boys and girls and issues of coparenting and custody are answered with compassion, wisdom and common sense in any easy to read question and answer format.This book answers many questions that you may not even have thought of yet. Why not get a jump on them?If you have a best friend who happens to be a child psychologist with a specialty and doesn't mind spending endless hours answering you questions, you can get by without this book. Otherwise it is a must have!

A Single Mother's Bible - Keep it near you at all times!!

The Complete Single Mother sits on my nightstand and I use it as a bible. I recommend it to any single Mom I meet. I refer to it for help in raising my two sons, in dealing with their father, and in any other situation I face as a single Mom. I truly appreciate the wealth of information it contains. Andrea Engber writes from her experience and does a tremendous job! This book is certainly a must for any single Mom!

Phenominal! Swell!!! A real family book!!!

A perfect resource for millions of families! Long, long, overdue! Naturally the religious right will hate this book, so too bad. Single mothers have existed since the dawn of civilization and it's high time humanity got civilized enough to acknowledge them and pay tribute to the difficult jobs they do. This book is not afraid to talk back to books like "Fatherless America." The only way to cut poverty among single moms is to provide women with the same opportunities as men in their career and to raise our girls to prepare to be self-supporting. The sixties and seventies brought on so many welcome, blessed changes for the better and may the 21st century continue in that direction! This book is a homing beacon to a better tomorrow!