Susan Newman, Ph.D.

Susan Newman is a social psychologist and author. Her books include Parenting an Only Child and The Book of NO.

Susan Newman, Ph.D. is a social psychologist who specializes in issues affecting family life. After being a custodial parent to four stepchildren, she remarried and had one child. Her curiosity about only children began when people asked repeatedly, “When are you having another?” The question became: Is there something wrong with having only one? Her book, Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only, answers that question. She is featured regularly on a wide variety of television and radio shows as well as in magazines and newspapers examining issues concerning only children and their parents. Parenting an Only Child has been published in numerous foreign countries including China, the only child “capitol” of the world.

Dr. Newman is the author of 13 books, most in the parenting field, and taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Among her titles are Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship With Your Mother and Father, The Book of No: 250 Ways to Say It—and Mean It and Stop People-Pleasing Forever, and Little Things Long Remembered: Making Your Children Feel Special Every Day. For more books, articles on only children and Susan’s other research interests, visit www.susannewmanphd.com

Her PT blog is Singletons.