title: Sex and the Single Parent
author:  Meg F. Schneider 
description: Schneider and Byer, both prolific authors with M.S.W.s and experience working with families, here offer solid guidelines on dating for single parents and widows/widowers. Parents, they believe, deserve and need a love life, but at the same time they must protect children from further loss and confusion. The authors treat the whole spectrum of dating, from casual dates through serious relationships and remarriage. They openly confront problems (e.g., hostile teenagers, power plays by children to try to derail a parent's relationship, and the need to find time for passion), offering realistic and varied solutions, and in separate chapters deal with dating after the death of a spouse and after children have left home. Although divorce and parenting books generally provide some coverage of romance, this is the only extended treatment of the topic-one certainly on the minds of many parents today. Recommended for all public libraries.<BR><I>Kay Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills, MD </I><BR>Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Dedication
  Thank you to all my sisters from other mothers.
  
  Chapter One
  “Where the hell have you been? The bakery doesn’t run itself, you know.” Hillary Tristan, oldest of
  the three Tristan sisters, scowled at Megan, the middle-born and perpetually late sister. “You’re over
  an hour late.”
  Allison, the youngest sister, giggled, then turned away from Hilly’s hard look to take Meg’s hand.
  She and Meg had a different connection, a closer bond than they had with Hilly. Still, they loved and
  respected their older sister.
  Meg rolled her eyes at Hilly and shrugged. “Am I? Well, you know what they say. Time flies when
  you’re having sex.”
  “Meg, not in front of Allie. Besides, I don’t think that’s how the saying goes.” Hilly’s cautionary
  glance at Meg wasn’t lost on Allie.
  Allie hopped up and down, unable to hold back as just the idea of sex sent bursts of yearning
  through her. “So you had sex? Last night and again this morning? Oh, please, Meg, you have to tell me
  all about it. I’m dying to hear