Straightforward and authentic, The Field Guide for Single Parents won’t waste your time with run-of-the-mill advice. You need single parent-tested strategies—and here they are. The authors’ professional backgrounds, overlayed with their experiences as single parents, create a truly helpful experience for the reader.

This comprehensive resource provides the antidote to parenting books that are tone deaf to the 25 percent of families headed by an unpartnered parent.

Grounded in facts, this book remedies the problem of self-help pablum. Voiced by single parents for single parents.

Part 1 focuses on keeping yourself healthy and (relatively) sane.

Part 2 addresses the single parent’s biggest challenge: time.

Part 3 is all about money.

Part 4 is about your relationships: kids, family and friends, potential romantic partners, and, ultimately, yourself.

The Field Guide for Single Parents stands alone as a fact-based book written with the voices of single parents. Destined to stay on the bedside table for easy access, this reference guide is for the first three critical decades of your children’s lives.