A guide to dating as a single parent: When to swipe left and when to swipe right

In their new book, How To Be A Happy Single Parent, authors Rebecca Cox and Zoe Desmond show mothers and fathers going it alone not just how to survive – but how to thrive

'But as you find your feet as a single parent, you’ll realise that you’re even more of a catch as the brilliant, independent single parent that you’ve become.'

Single parents, and more frequently single mums, get a lot of press. All too often, it’s tragic tales of adversity, frequently accompanied by the words “broke”, “helpless”, and “desperate”.

One former British prime minister even described the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate” in a column, despite having left a string of single mother exes in his wake.