A majority of American children will spend all or part of their childhoods with a single parent. Half of the children are boys being raised by sinlge mom's. So this book deals on to raise a boy to a man without being to protective or babying the young boy.

With The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys, parents find the authoritative handbook they need to raise their boys right, from early childhood through the teenage years. They learn how to help their sons: - Strengthen self-image and resist peer pressure; - Define and exhibit acceptable behavior; - Instill solid values they can apply at school and on the playing field; - Honor their commitments to family, community, and themselves. Noted family therapist Cheryl L. Irwin shows parents how to create positive, supportive relationships with their sons that encourage open communication and help them establish a healthy foundation of values and goals. With patience, perseverance, and The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys, parents can see their boys through those challenging developmental years, and take pride in their successful transition from boys to men.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

"Contains material adapted from The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys, 2nd edition by Cheryl L. Erwin"--Title page verso.

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