Single Parenting

More than 60% of the parents today are Single parents. Divorce may not be the only option for these single parents, but issues like Adultery, Death, etc. Most of the times when a child is raised by a single parent, he/she is bought up in a completely different way. Sometimes when she is in trouble, the only person she can confront is her only parent. In most cases, the single parents consist of the mothers. It’s pretty rare when you find fathers as Single parents.

Basically Single parenting isn’t an easy task at all. A lot of sacrifice, dedication, commitment and extra love go into this process of raising a child. Sometimes when a parent is raising her child all by herself, she’s probably been alone ever since her pregnancy or maybe after the child is born. A few cases in which a mother would have to raise a child all by herself ever since her pregnancy, she either has her parents or a maybe a friend. This in turn helps her in a healthy pregnancy if it’s her first baby. At times, they are just left all alone, with no support from any family member, so what do such women do?

When fathers are left alone with their children, it’s rather more difficult for him to look after them because usually in India, a woman washes clothes, changes diapers and cleans vessels, not a man. In a way, I’d say it’s a good thing for the man, since he’d finally get to know how it feels like, being in the shoes of the woman. As I mentioned, everything has pros and cons, and so does this. There are several advantages of Single Parenting, in which one is where the child gets closer to the parent. The parent-child relationship grows as the child grows and matures faster. There’s definitely more possessiveness as there’s only one parent, but there’s more love.

The disadvantages of having a single parent, or the process of single parenting is that, you just have one parent, and no matter how hard the parent tries to fill that emptiness in the child, it will always be incomplete. Another disadvantage is that the child only has one parent to look up to; and there’s only one source of income. However, as the child grows, there is a need to seek for more love, due to which the child gets into relationships and looks for love in other people, mainly in people of the opposite sex. Yes, it is surely difficult for both, the parent and the child to go through, but as they say “Every cloud has a silver lining”.

No matter how situations are, we humans, still tend to adapt in the best way we can, sometimes with negative consequences and sometimes in positive. So I’d like to conclude by saying that, however bad situations get, there’s always someone above who looks after us, when we feel lonely. And children of single parents shouldn’t be depressed, but be proud of what and who they are, because it isn’t their fault that they’re born of their families.