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President
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Trish Stover
Treasurer
Wayne Kimball
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VP Community Relations
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Are You A Single Parent?
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It’s Not Easy To Be A Single Parent
How do you cope with 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 or even legal problems? How do you rebuild a life that seemingly has come apart? And, how do you do all this alone?
Our society, for many years, has been based in the strengths of the two-parent family, and it has been slow to accept that single parent families can be strong, too. Even today, when single parents head more than one-half of all families raising children, often our institutions do not allow for their special circumstances and our leaders often do not appreciate their hardships or victories.
There are nearly 31 million single parent families today, nevertheless, single parents often feel alone and that no one understands. 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.
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We Are Here To Help
And, we’ve been here since 1957. Parents Without Partners is an international, non-profit, 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.
Our chapters are located in most of the 50 states and most Canadian Provinces. Our members represent a typical cross section of North American society, including all types of occupations, educational levels, faiths, and political beliefs. What we have in common is that we are single and we care about doing a good job in rearing our children.
What Can We Do For You?
The most important benefit we offer is that you will have the opportunity to meet sympathetic and understanding men and women within our chapters who have experienced firsthand the challenges of single parenting.
You can gain a new perspective when you discover you’re not alone, that others have
triumphed over or going through the same difficulties.
You will learn that your children need not be “victims” of a single parent situation.
Your children will benefit, too. Not only from the PWP activities planned for them, but
from the strength and self-reliance you, and they, can gain from the new parenting skills
you can develop.
You’ll be eligible for all the benefit programs we develop just for our members, such as
group insurance coverage at competitive rates, a low cost credit card, discounts on
travel, national child support collection services and others.
As a volunteer based organization you will be asked to help at various activities. You get out of the organization what you put into it.
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Chapter Links
Brownwood, TX
Ellis Co, TX
Greater Little Rock, AK
Monroe, LA
New Chapters
Coming!
Collin County, TX
Leesville, LA
Corpus Cristi, TX
Longview/Tyler, TX
Lubbuck, TX
Lawton, OK
El Paso, TX
Tulsa, OK
Durant, OK
East of Houston, TX
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What Do Our Chapters Do?
Our chapters, with professional advice, conduct a variety of programs including:
Educational Programs and discussion groups on subjects such as parent child relationships in single parent families, effective communication, learning to love again, ho to be alone without being lonely, and a variety of other topics. Some chapters run special programs for the widowed, never married, or divorced.
Family Activities for the children, at low cost, such as camping, hiking, picnics, bowling, swimming parties, or crafts. PWP may be one place children from single parent homes meet others in the same situation, where they need not feel different, where they are never the minority. Some chapters conduct discussion groups where parents and children together explore family concerns.
Parent Activities for adults provide opportunities to develop a circle of friends and supportive network. Single parents meet others who care about family life and learn to re-enter the social world in a supportive non-threatening atmosphere.
Community Service or advocacy projects, where chapters reach out to single parents in the community or share their collective experiences. Chapters may conduct community educational programs on divorce, raise awareness about child abuse, lobby for legal changes helping single parents, compile listings of community resources, or raise funds for children’s hospitals, among a variety of projects.
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How Can You Join?
To be eligible for membership, you must be a parent and you must be single. You may be widowed, separated, divorced or never married. Custody is not a requirement.
Check your phone book or community hotline for a chapter near you. If you cannot find one, and have access to a computer, check the PWP International website. Chapters will be shown. Or click a chapter link.
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