This book presents single parenting in the voices of the real experts - the parents themselves. Shoshana Alexander weaves her firsthand account as a single mother with the personal stories of many other men and women who, by choice or by circumstance, are raising children by themselves. The challenges these parents face in their individual lives are those faced by all families in our nation, revealing that the issue is not only how one parent can raise children alone, but also how we as a society are raising our children.