Single Parents

With more than half of all first marriages ending in divorce, it’s time to re-think the notion that “divorce” means “failure.”

Research shows that single parents account for 27 percent of family households that include children under 18 and that the number of single mothers in the United States more than tripled between 1970 and 2000.

There are notions that the single-parent family is somehow deficient and associated with adjustment problems in children.

Andy can help you identify the anger, pain, sadness, and guilt experienced by many members of single parent families and offer therapy considerations from a systematic approach.

Andy can also help the single parent and the child begin to understand that without the other parent there would be no child and that perhaps the best thing the other parent could do is give the gift of life. 

This is the ultimate gift and must be honored even if the single parent may not like the behaviors of the missing parent.  If this is not done the child often takes on the worst traits of the missing parent.