Valerie and Barry Stow.  Valerie and Barry Stow. Photo: Angela
Wylie  Valerie Stow met her husband Barry 44 years ago. She
tells the story.  I was 24, a single mother with a daughter 3½
years old, and still waiting for a divorce. Barry was 32,
widowed with a two-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son.
Parents Without Partners was a new organisation back then, for
single people with children to meet one another. We used to call
it PWP. Sometimes there were events that catered for children,
and others where it was just the adults.  Valerie and Barry Stow
met at a parents without partners dance.  Valerie and Barry Stow
met at a parents without partners dance. Photo: Angela Wylie  I
had an older friend living down the street, a man who used to
take me to their dances. We had an arrangement that if he met
someone to take home, I'd make my own way. On this night we were
going to a house party in Caulfield South.  It was Barry's first
night at PWP and I snapped him up. I saw a nice-looking woman
moving in on him