I need opinions: Would you feel segregated if a children's centre did a specific group for LPs and their under 5s?

[Alambil]

to provide info on benefits / going to work / housing / all sorts / health support (mental and physical) / social stuff in a safe, secure and friendly environment with only people from similar circumstances as opposed to a session where anyone can join in

am just thinking; I'd like it (or I would have when ds was younger) but would the majority?

my big idea is to set up a session at work for LPs to find out this stuff much like we do for the teen mums and other groups and obviously then encouraging the clients to attend other (universal) services

opinions please?

if it's a good idea, what name would you give the group?

I wanted to be in that couply world for the last three years, only realising nwo that without a 'hubbie' (barf! ) you just won't be let in, not really. I'm really keen now to put myself in situations where I'll visit other single parents. Or, even just people that I meet not in a family-orientated environment.

friends valium. rather than we've used our womb therefore we socialise stuff. that world is harder to get into as a single but is it worth getting into?

the whole playdate, mumfriends thing always seems a bit superficial.

but i know it's hard feeling isolated at weekends. i tend to find saturdays long and end up visiting family if they'll have us on a sunday.

the tricky thing is that most single mum's i'd have things in common with are mid-30's and busy working and doing stuff rather than hanging round playgroups.

would be nice if there were ways of meeting. i had one friend who also happened to be a single mum and that was nice but unfortunately she turned out to be a bit of an arse when we went away together and we fell out rather spectacularly. a part of me thought oh maybe i should just put up with being treated like shite because she's the only single mum friend i've got. then i gave myself a slap and got over it

nah! i'd never do that!

On mumsnet and on another forum I post on (what a saddo I am to have two fora) there are loads of single parents who I think I could click with if I met them in real life. But where are they in real life!!??

I have one friend from school who is a single parent but we never see each other at weekends, she is busier than I am really. I would like to make some new friends locally.

I have made one good friend who is married, so it's not all doom and gloom!

But through school and toddler groups I have met not one single solitary single parent friend. I had to go looking for the new single parent I have made. It's all couples, couples, couples at my dc's school. I think there is one other single mtoher actually but she doesn't seem to even try to involve herself like I tried. I was naive, I thought it wouldn't matter, but now I've decided that its not really worth much time and effort just being friendly with people. I want to actually make some friends. It's horribly embarrassing to find yourself in that situation. I've always considered myself sociable. I've never had to not just work at friends, but to formulate a strategy, lol, eg, where, where and how can Imeet some single parents? I must see if gingerbread have some thing going on in my area. Just don't know if I can face another 35 years of tip toeing around the married World on the outskirks. I need my own World. There are so many of us (single parents of both sexes), why is it so hard to find each other in real life.

or is this just MY experience? Am I overanalysing things/.

I know what you mean valium, I don't know any other single parents and often feel marginalised from the couply married world. Whereabouts are you?