Single Parenting: Not not a Good Idea

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. Many single parents we have in the world today never imagined they'd be single parents someday. Everyone's dream is to build a happy home, one everyone will admire, but life happens anyway and things go sideways.

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Single parenting, as the name implies, simply refers to a situation where a parent single-handedly trains a child or children. People become single parents for different reasons, some because of divorce and some because they lost their partner to the cold hands of death. Single parenting actually has an effect on the emotional and psychological aspects of the child's life.

Both parents have a role to play in a child's upbringing, and the absence of one parent affects the child. A single parent cannot play the roles of a father and a mother perfectly, no matter how hard they might try. It is not easy to be a father, just as it's not easy to be a mother. Both should be present to play their roles in the life of the child. Raising a child is not easy on both parents; imagine the weight on just one parent. There will surely be loopholes.

If you see a child that was raised single-handedly and one raised by both parents, it's quite easy to differentiate and identify them. If they were raised by a single mother, they'd lack fatherly love and fatherly advice and would not have the experience of what it feels like to be loved by a father. The same happens when they are raised by a father; those corrections a mother is always there to make in the life of her child will be absent, and these children will grow up lacking all of these.

One trait that children raised by single parents are known for is indiscipline and disrespect. Due to the fact that they lack the correction of their parents, they end up being extremely disrespectful and indisciplined. I came across a single mother sometime ago, and I loved the way she pampered the child, and no one except her was allowed to caution this child for her wrong deeds. I doubt if such a child will grow up and have regard for others. A little girl is so insulting, but you dare not talk to her, or else you have her mother's wrath to face.

Many children raised by single parents end up being wayward. Single parents give their kids the leverage to do anything that pleases them all in the name of making them happy and not allowing them to feel the absence of the other partner. They become adults, and they still want to continue living life that way, doing whatever pleases them.

Life gets too lonely for the parent involved, as they will try to be there for their kid and, in the process, end up pushing friends away and missing out on all the fun. A single parent carries all the burden alone, with no one to share it with to make it a little bit lighter.

Trust me, we still have single parents who do parenting way better than some parents who still have their partners present in the relationship. Some single parents play the roles of both father and mother so well that they shape the child into a better version of themselves. Single parenthood is difficult; it has its pros and cons.

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