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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Single Parenthood

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Single parenthood is a phenomenon that has always been in existence and is as old as mankind. A single parent is an uncoupled individual who shoulders most or all of the day to day responsibilities for raising a child. Shannon (2010) stated in her study that, there are about 13.6 million single parents alone in America with an average of 2 children per household or about 21.2 million children which constitutes 26% of the population. Lately Single-parenting is already becoming a norm, still, others see this type of parenting as inappropriate and improper in upbringing a child, which should not be the case. Children raised by single-parent are not disadvantaged because they are academically, socially, and psychologically driven.

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The children, upon growing up in that type of household, allowed their selves to grow more responsible as a person. They have this common notion of “shared responsibility” where each individual in the family grew up with a mindset that one must contribute and help with the household chores seeing as there’s less manpower in the family. Children also realize that a little goes a long way to help the parent. Simple tasks of cleaning one’s own room, washing the dishes, or throwing out the garbage instilled to them by the parent, helped mold their values and psychological framework upon growing up. And knowing that their contributions to the family are wanted and very much welcomed, somehow, their feelings of self-worth and sense of self-esteem increases. Having had to care for themselves and sometimes the younger siblings, it truly can’t be helped that they have built confidence in their abilities through this. A perfect example of this is stated in the study conducted by Roberts (2013, p. 71), where she interviewed Anthony- a child raised by a single parent, wherein the author wrote down that Anthony received positive reinforcements for completing his assigned chores. Through this, he felt his pride and built up his self-esteem and even added that he felt even better about his own self and was even more confident because of it. Having given greater responsibilities at home, especially if a child is the eldest often exhibit more confidence and autonomy to the children which then causes one to have a boosts in one’s

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