Of course
one needs money to survive in the world; yet what the world really needs is
people of character, people who are so outstanding they mark human history.
Sadly the single mother has been looked down upon as not being able to raise a
child into being such a person. This is especially true of those labeled “conservative
married people”… they tend to judge the single mother the most... I will never
forget my eldest child’s high school orientation”… The parents had to attend
the evening session to be “lectured” as to how be a “good parent to your new high
school student” (as if being a good parent only started with your child in high
school) … of course the single moms there were only a handful, most of the
mothers being married and conservative (it was a religious school) …
And I will
never forget the woman who spoke on how to help your child to “adjust” to high
school and what you should do as a parent spoke … now this woman was “married”
and she was now telling me how to parent my child … but the irony of this woman
was her son had been arrested a few times and her daughter was known to her
peers to be a bit “fast” and the young girl wore enough makeup to be in the
clown section of a circus … and I thought wow … this woman is telling me how to
parent??? Maybe she should look into her own family before she gives others
advice!
As a single
parent you are going to be lectured about how you are doing a disservice to
your child by raising them in a single parent home, on how they will grow up
twisted, drug addicted losers … yet I have failed to see true stats where that
can be proven… Yes there is usually more money in a two parent household, so
more “things” can be given to a child growing up, but is there more character
in that home??? Maybe not for the child
is taught to value things outside themselves not the things within …
