![]() ![]() Education, in particular, stands out as the most critical factor in explaining poor parenting. The weak parenting skills found among single parents in the study may be related not only to the lack of a second parent, but to a lack of income and education as well. A recent study by Richard Reeves and Kimberly Howard finds that parenting skills vary across demographic groups and that forty-four percent of single mothers fall into the weakest category and only 3 percent in the strongest category. Even beyond having more income, two parents also have more time to spend with the child. On top of that, single parents often have to spend a greater proportion of their income on child care because they do not have a co-parent to stay home with the child while they work. Single parents only have one income coming into the house. One possibility is that children in two parent families do better because of the increased resources available to them. Why are the children of divorced or unwed parents at greater risk of experiencing poor outcomes? There are a number of possibilities. Not all children raised in single parent families suffer these adverse outcomes it is simply that the risks are greater for them. They are at greater risk of parental abuse and neglect (especially from live-in boyfriends who are not their biological fathers), more likely to become teen parents and less likely to graduate from high school or college. I've always been optimistic and eager to give my love to any guy who wanted it hoping that they'd give it back, but all that got me was a shattered heart and broken spirits.Children raised by single mothers are more likely to fare worse on a number of dimensions, including their school achievement, their social and emotional development, their health and their success in the labor market. I've spent my life searching for someone to fill the emptiness in my heart, someone to love me like my dad never had. From the moment my dad stepped out the door that day and out of my life so did my hope for love, at that very moment he killed my Prince Charming and nothing can ever change that and no other guy since then has proved me wrong, yet. Growing up without a father has had a dramatic effect on my relationships with men. My dad's face replaces the faces of every handsome face that I see, they become cruel, heartless monsters with no regard to the feelings and emotions of others, faces that could never love me. I watch them and can't seem to figure out just what I did wrong to not deserve that kind of love, the love from my father, the love from a man. ![]() I can't escape him he's everywhere, every father I see with his family having a picnic at the beach, in every couple that I see holding each other on the street. ![]() To me he's a mere shadow, a fuzzy memory that never seems to fail to creep into my dreams and haunt me. I don't remember ever writing him a Father's Day card or feeling the warmth of his arms around me, I was too young to remember ever having his love, I don't remember much about him at all. I wasn't able to get to know him, didn't get to find out what kind of food he liked, the TV shows he watched or even if he ever loved me and my mom. He just packed his bags and left, as simple as that, I never saw him ever again. There was never a really a strong father figure in my life since the day my dad left when I was just five years old. ![]()
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