Essay On Parent Parents

The Effects of Loosing a Parent as a Teenager There is over 1.9 billion children in the world (The World has reached Peak Number of Children!) and over 320 million of them are living in a single-parent family (320 Million Children in Single-Parent Families). Many children have experienced a death of a parent, causing them to be left with only one. Although the children would eventually become less afflicted by the death of their other parent, it still leaves a permanent effect on the child. Children who have lost a parent face more challenges in life than children who haven’t. In the novel P.S. I Still Love You, Lara-Jean was a child of a single-parent family after her mother had passed away. This was a big adjustment for the family, but most of all, for Lara-Jean. Lara-Jean’s older sister became the mother role-model until she moved away to college. This was when everything changed for Lara-Jean. There were many times in the novel where it would mention that Lara-Jean was cooking dinner for the family, getting her younger sister Kitty ready for school or even driving her around to her activities. This plays a

She had a father role-model but because of his occupation as a doctor, he was almost never at home, meaning Lara-Jean was in-charge. She spent more time worrying about school, making dinners, and driving her sister around then hanging out with friends or going to fun school events. This was never good for her because she would always feel left out of things, but not only that, she wouldn’t have as many highschool memories as her other friends. Making memories in highschool is very important to a person because it is amazing to look back on and cherish, but for someone such as Lara-Jean, they would feel left out as a kid and a grown-up to look back at all of the fun things everyone took part in except for