Much like any other aspect of parenting, single motherhood doesn't come with a manual.
Every one's journey to single motherhood is a little different: some come through grief and loss, some come through choice, and some are unsure quite how they found themselves here but are daily growing to like the place better and better. Yet few of us arrive knowing what to expect, nor how to proceed once we've reached this place.
I stood in Borders in the heart of Brisbane a couple of weeks ago; always a pleasure for me, but with some of the gloss taken off by an impatient, footsore, rather hungry small boy. It meant that I had to make the most of the few minutes I had, and I made a beeline for the Parenting section. I was on a mission, satisfying an idle speculation which was rapidly becoming a truth – that there were almost no books on Australian bookshelves about single motherhood. There really IS no manual.
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