This prompt reminds me a lot about my personal life because I was raised by a single parent right from childhood. It is not because the other parent is irresponsible but because everyone in this world has their destination, and once someone gets to their destination, they will definitely get down. And that was what made some children’s journeys rough and hard.
Every parent has a part to play in every child’s life because parents are like guardians to their children; at a point in the child’s life, parents are the ones to decide for them, correct them, and direct them so that the child wouldn’t take a wrong step in life. Having a single parent does not mean a child would not survive or succeed in life because what matters most is the upbringing of a child and the training the parent gave the child.
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Nobody knows what the future has for us, so being raised by a single parent doesn’t remove or change anything in a child’s life, except if the parent is not doing it right for the child. Though both parents are important in raising the child because one of them might not be right while the other parent will correct the impression, and that is just the disadvantage I see in single parents, especially if they are mothers, because most children fear their fathers more than their mothers.
I will use myself as an example because I was raised by a single mother, and that is because my father passed away a long time ago, even before I could recognize him as a father. My mom is an amazing single mother because she trained me and my siblings on the right path even though it was hard for her, but here we are today doing so well with our lives. Though we are not billionaires, we are living good lives the best way we can.
While our mother was raising us there was a father who was raising his children alone as well, those kids were so stubborn they don’t listen or take heed to whatever their father said to them, but now they are great people living good lives like us. Sometimes it doesn’t matter if it a child was raised by single parent or both parents because there are lots of parents that raise their kids together and at the end the children turn out to be a disgrace to them and to the people around them.
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I lived with a family who raised their kids together in my former compound; once the father is home, those kids will behave normally, but whenever he is not around, they will begin to walk around the neighborhood looking for what to steal for their mother. In that same compound there was a single mother who was raising three kids all by herself, and those kids never trespassed since the day I knew them; in fact, they are the best kids in the compound.
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how many parents that raised a child but the upbringing and the training they gave the Child is all that matter, I have seen both parents raising their children successfully as well and I have also seen single parents that raised kids well too, so I think it is simply the upbringing that matter most when raising a child or children.
