Welcome!
We know it's not easy being a
single parent.
How do you face the challenge of bringing up your children
alone? Or how do you learn to live apart
from them? How do you get the
information you need to solve parenting, financial, and legal problems? How do you rebuild a life that has seemingly
come apart? And how do you do all of
this alone? Learning to adjust to single
parenting takes time and effort. For
some of us this can be a period of crisis; for others, a turning point in life.
We are here to help.
And we have been here for 50 years. Parents Without
Partners is an international nonprofit educational organization of custodial
and non-custodial single parents--widowed, divorced, separated or never
married. Since our first chapter was
organized in 1957, we have joined together for mutual support so that our
single parent homes can provide a healthy family environment for our
children. (For general information about
PWP as well as links to numerous resources for single parents, see Parents Without
Partners International web site.)
You will have the opportunity to meet sympathetic and
understanding men and women within our chapter who have experienced firsthand
the challenges of single parenting. You
can gain a new perspective when you discover that you are not alone and that
others have triumphed over the same difficulties.
Your children will benefit, too--not only from the PWP
activities planned for them--but from the strength and self-reliance you can
gain and from the new parenting skills you can develop.
We depend on your help too.
As a volunteer-based organization, we encourage all members
to get involved by planning and/or helping out at activities. You get out of the organization what you put
into it!
What our chapter offers:
² Recreational activities for the children at low cost, such as
holiday parties, amusement parks, sporting events, bowling, movies, etc.
²
Social activities for adults that
provide opportunities to develop a circle of friends and a supportive
network. Single parents meet others who
care about family life and learn to reenter the social world in a supportive,
non-threatening atmosphere.
² Educational programs and discussion groups on subjects such
as parent-child relationships, single parent families, effective communication,
learning to love again, how to be alone without being lonely, and a variety of
other topics.