Myth - Children growing Up in a Single Parent Home
March 28, 2009What is Family?The definition of family is a group of people, traditionally parents and their children whether dwelling together or not. This may comprise as anyone connected to you by blood or by adoption, or by marriage like step parents, grandparents, grandparents acting as parents, and even brothers and sisters sometimes sharing the same household. The term family has been believed to coincide with the word "marriage". If you were to have a family, you were also thought to have a husband or wife. This is not always the case now a day. So many families are just one guardian, no husband and wife, no mom and dad just mom, just dad or just grandparent, even aunt or uncle, and in rare instances just brother or sister.
What does family mean? The word family means so much to different people. To some it means security, love, a sense of being close to someone. To others it might just mean they are related to those folks over yonder, somehow, it is just in names only. I personally was raised by a single mother, and even though we had to struggle with one parent, we knew we had the rest of our family, we were still close. My mother raised us to be there for one another, to know our extended family and spend time together.
Now that I am a single parent, I try to keep family close to my sons, which it is hard, because unfortunately the in-laws are not a close family and do not see any importance in being close or being there for each other. I am a single parent not by choice, and only temporary, but I have been a single parent for some time now, and the struggle is difficult. I grew up...
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