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“No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.”

Quote by Marge M. Kennedy

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

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The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World is a comprehensive guide for individuals who are raising children alone. The book delves into various aspects of single parenting, including emotional support, financial management, and the importance of community. It provides practical strategies for creating a stable and loving home environment, as well as tips for maintaining personal well-being amidst the demands of parenting. The author shares personal stories and expert perspectives to offer a well-rounded view of the single-parent experience. more

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Marge M. Kennedy

Marge M. Kennedy is a notable novelist whose works have left a mark on the world of fiction. Specific details about her life and achievements are not readily available. more

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“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.”

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.”

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“We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.”

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Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.”

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“Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.”

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“Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.”

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Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.”

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“I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”

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Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

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