Single parents in Dorset

Bournemouth and Poole hold most of the population and the rest of Dorset is small towns and coast. It's a county a lot of people move to rather than grow up in, which means a good number of parents here are without family nearby and doing the whole thing single-handed. Beach walks do a lot of first-date work.

Everyone here is a parent, so the practical stuff — custody weeks, childcare, a reply that comes two days later because it was that kind of week — never needs explaining.