single parents' association
H/l: A group to fight post-divorce blues, cope with stress in children intro: Peer group divorced persons, widows and those 'separated' from their spouses share difficulties and find solutions with help from family court marriage counsellors AADITI JATHAR LAKADE Tuesday , Jan 12, 2010 at Pune Pune: All through her four-year divorce ordeal, Pradnya had sleepless nights. After her formal separation from her husband, she is more worried seeing her school-going son unable to cope with the situation. “It is not the pain of the divorce, but my son’s inability to cope with the separation that bothers me,” she says. She has now joined the Single Parents’ Association (SPA) that works towards tackling problems of single parents such as bringing up children, coping with loneliness and so on. The association that began with 20-odd members a year ago recently added 50 more indicating the growing need of such an organisation that was initiated by the ‘Association of Marriage Counsellors work...