Single parent-families have become common in our society today,though many who are raised by single parents feel its right deep inside there many challenges that affect them.Single parenting can be a choice or it can be caused by unavoidable circumstances.Looking at the first cause of single parents is-
1. Early pregnancy
-We currently leave in a nation where we have got lots of young mothers,they tend to be single probably because no one will want to have someone with a child already or there bad view of men especially if the pregnancy caused them to drop out of schools,the children in this case suffer more especially when there is no one to support there single parents.They live a life they did not choose to and grow up with habits of different kinds-some can end up being thieves because of lack of what to manage themselves.
2. Divorce
-This is the worse night mare ever that somene can dream of its like getting used to butter and honey life and all of sudden everything goes smudged.This affects parenting,here children suffer the most they are psycologically tortured they miss morthely or fatherly love.
3.Influence from parents
This occurs whereby children would want to be just like there parents.They are convinced that it is good to be a single parents because there are used to that kind of life.
4.Domestic violence
There are families where parents especially fathers abuse there wives by beating them up when the kids are watching,or where parents just quarrel anyhowly when the kids are watching,in families like this kids end up to be single parents because of what they saw from there parents.
5.Preferance
Here its about someones choice there are those people that prefer just to be single because of there own reasons.
