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Lone parents

Use our Single Parent forum to speak to other parents raising a child alone.

Should I be saying something
1
Does the exhaustion ever end?
10
Flexible Court Orders
16
Any other lone parents struggling without a regular break from the children?
52
Ex wants contact after NC for 4 years
11
DD refusing contact
7
Lone parent, 44, feeling lonely and working from home: how to meet someone?
5
Terrified of cafcass and court
31
How to feel more positive
3
EX has blocked me trying to use DD
12
Ex appeared at park
19
Looking for another single mum to rent together
53
DV
1
Concerned about baby being alone with dad
22
How do lone parents secure private rentals before housing benefit is confirmed?
7
Struggling with motivation due to disrupted sleep
2
The Solo Parent Club
25
Parenting apps advice!
2
Do any lone parents enjoy child-free time?
29
Fun times - sickness bug 🤢
2
Some progress...but more hearings to come
0
Encouraging independent play in 3yo?
6
Can all single parents of younger children relate to this?
16
resent guilt trips when lone parents say they need a break?
5
Anyone else talk to themselves?
8
Will advice for lone parent
3
Experience of court Top Up orders
1
High school
6
Child Maintenance
13
How are people doing this every day?
54
Ending a relationship on maternity leave and concerns about shared custody
4
How much “stuff” do you do with your kids?
40
House/ flat share in Bromley with another solo mum
10
Find myself envious of others
43
Child Maintenance advice self employed ex
8
Teens in a 2 bed
9
Housing help
3
Could court order a Tuesday to Wednesday 50:50 term time pattern?
16
How do you get two young children to bed as a single parent??
13
Court order breach
41
Stuck between raising teens, fear of my ex, and wanting a life of my own
20
To let absent dad in child’s life or not?
42
Dc refusing to stay with Dad
1
Feel like my kids are so clingy?
2
My heart breaks more everyday
9
Ex partner formally refused me taking my son on holiday.
93
WWYD? Dd not happy at her dads..
14
What age is ok to leave child alone?
144
Challenging Child
7
Does anyone else feel guilty
3