Single parents in Merseyside

Merseyside is tight. Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Southport — you can cross most of it inside forty minutes, and the Mersey is more of a landmark than a barrier now. It's a place where meeting someone from the next borough is unremarkable, and where a lot of parents have family within a short drive.

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.