• Contributing author, When I Think About My Father


What they say about Andrea Engber

-Our readers have been thrilled with her helpful advice and tips. She hits just the right note for single moms.--Working Mother magazine

-Andrea Engber clearly is in touch with single mothers feelings and needs. Her advice is terrific; practical and reassuring, it comes from the heart, and it provides a world of support for women who to often feel alone.--American Baby magazine

-Her advice is refreshingly positive! --Detroit Free Press

-Andrea Engber is a knowledgeable, quotable expert on all aspects of single motherhood--and, better yet, she is a single mom's best friend and cheerleader. -Working Mother

-A wealth of resources...-Cleveland Plain Dealer

-A+! Hats off to Engber...-New Woman magazine

-What a great interview! Our listeners will really benefit from all this fantastic information. -Mary Windishar, Host, Parent Club Radio Program

about her articles, books and columns...

-Constructive strategies for coping with major problems and everyday incidents that are special to single mothers...A great resource!--Redbook magazine

-A virtual encyclopedia of knowledge!---Jane Mattes, director, SMC, author, Single Mother by Choice

-Reads like a conversation with a warm and well informed friend.--Shoshana Alexander, co-founder of Utne Reader, author, In Praise of Single Parents

-Highly recommended for all parenting collections. -Library Journal

-Substantial...Chock full of resource information. -Chicago Tribune

-Thank you for all your helpful advice. Your words have revolutionized my parenting skills! --HW, Madison, NJ

-Move over, Abby and Ann...[they] always recommend you go for counseling, but your columns provide insight and answers.--JM, Ann Arbor, MI

-Even though I am not a full-time father, your helpful hints for weekend dads has been a lifesaver. The transition since our divorce has been easier on us all because of you. -DW, Fullerton, CA

-My mother sends me your column regularly from Florida. I could not live without Single With Children. What does it take to get my paper to print it? -RP, Nyack, New York

-I love your column! -SL, Providence, RI

-Thank God someone has finally addressed the concerns of single parents. You would think with half of all kids living in a single parent family there would be more help out there. -AN, Reno, NV

-Whenever I read SWC, I feel you are talking directly to me. You seem to know exactly what I am going through. -IF, Gastonia, NC

I have never written to a newspaper before but had to just say, Thank you! -HN, Madison, WI

-Where were you ten years ago? I read your column and wish I had your advice when I was raising three boys alone. -FE, San Antonio, TX

-We now post your column in our break room at work because someone was always taking it out of the paper before the rest of us could read it. The nurses here think you are a Godsend! -LC, Phoenix, AZ

-You have literally saved my life! I thank you and my children thank you. -WM, Internet, OH

Awards and honors

1994 recognition of Single Mother by President Bill Clinton
Winner of the 1996 No-nonsense American Woman Award
Single Mother, winner of the 1997-1998 Parents Choice Award
Single Mother, winner of the 2000 Parents Guide Award
National USA week award winner, Outstanding Single Mom by American Association for Single People
Recognition by North Carolina Governor Mike Easley for National Single American's Week proclamation
ABC-CIO recognition as activist and leader for single mothers rights
Starred reviews from Library Journal, Booklist and Publishers Weekly for The Complete Single Mother
Click here to hear Andrea on NPR's Talk of the Nation

Facts about single moms:

--Single mothers are now the majority. More children live with a single mother than they do in traditional two-parent households.

--Currently, there are nearly 13 million single moms in the United States.

--A third of all births are to single women. In 2000, the majority of first births--53 percent--were to unmarried women.

--The fastest growing group of single mothers are MOMs--Mothers Outside of Marriage.

--Teen single motherhood has decreased slipping from 8.2 percent to less than 6.5 percent in the last decade.

--According to a groundbreaking study, The Hite Report on the Family, boys who grow up in mother only families have better relationships with women later in life; daughters in such families are more likely to see their mothers as independent, strong women; both children have closer relationships with their parents benefitting by not having the distraction of another adult in the home.

--Numerous studies by speech pathologists have determined that single mothers have children with better communication skills.