What Do We Really Know About Why Children Need Two Parents?

I am a single mother. I was raised by 2 very awesome parents. Lived in a good neighborhood growing up went to a good school. Both my mother and my father died when I was nearly an adult. I didn't have nice aunts to take me in or any other family (people probably much like your self) to help. I dropped out of high school and got a job. Married a decent guy had a child 2 years after we were married. I got pregnant while on the pill (which for some reason my body was not absorbing properly). When our child was about a year old my spouse got around a bad crowd started using drugs. I didn't know about his drug abuse till it was too late and he was too far gone. When our child was 6 I left my husband and got a divorce. I never saw him again. No one can find him I don't receive any financial help with our child and he never contacts our child. I wish I and my daughter could have that perfect world. That's just NOT reality. So many of you who down all those you cannot identify with, seem to think it's the single parents fault for being single. Wake up single minded people! So statistics are just "statistics". Do not judge those around you. Your opinion is just an opinion just like mine and that's fine. All those who don't like their tax dollars to go that type of thing is fine too. I don't really like my tax dollars having to go to prisons where I am sure my dead beat ex - spouse is or will end up. Just do not judge a person. You have no idea what their situation is and stereotyping single mothers, fathers, or 2 parent homes is silly. For every person in this world there is a unique situation. Life is hard. No doubt about it. Some things you can control and some things you can't. Hopefully for society's sake single minded people with bad attitudes and unhappy lives will get hit in the face by karma. Do the best you can regardless your upbringing or current situation and something good can come out of it.

Well you can't tell a woman, or a man that they can't raise their kid in a good way being single but every single parent must admit that to have a partner to help take on the responsibilities of parents would be a blessing. Yes, single parents CAN turn out good kids but the kids go through very rough teenager years because of the lack of supervision and parental support. Not because the single parent doesn't care but because they are at work and I can tell you that kids will do as they dare when their folks are not at home. It is far better to have two parents actively involved in raising the children than one. I wish that couples took their child rearing responsibilities a lot more seriously.

the thing that scares me is that some of you peole think that parents need to be together no matter what have any of you considered why there is a single parent? or do u just judge for one I was raised be my single mom .because my so called excuse for a wanna be dead beat drunk gambling abusive father is now is vegas. I have no seen or heard from him since I was in first grade. well guess what I don't do drugs. i'm not on welfare. I pay bills I have a a great job 2 degrees and going on my last one. if you ask me its not jsut the single parents that have mesed up kids there are alos ones who came from loving families. its not always the single parents fault or the loving families fault sometimes it is but most times its the kids faullt. I have a good family minus the paternal one. and I am not messed up for not having him in my life. I am better off so while you all are bashing single parents . why not realize its not always for the best to have both in their lives.

There is overwhelming evidence that children living with two parents are far less likely to grow up in poverty than are children living with single parents. And while single parents can and do great jobs raising their kids, most objective studies find that children do benefit from having a loving mom and dad in the home and will be better adjusted by a 'gender balance'. Further, traditional two parent families generally produce more safe and more stable neighborhoods and even the schools will be better when they serve more traditional families.

And I really think it is pathetic that if the government doesn't hold their hands, American adults are incapable of being responsible or doing the right thing. If Planned Parenthood can't raise private donations like other not for profit organizations do and has to depend on the taxpayer to do a job, we probably won't miss them all that much.

It is ridiculous to believe that a mom can teach a boy to be a man or a man to teach a girl to be a woman. We are OBVIOUSLY wired differently...

It is in the best interest for children to have two parents. Studies have shown that children raised in homes with one parent (usually mothers) are financially worse off. Secondly single parents of "opposite sex" children for example young girls starting their periods, need a mother's assurance. Young boys who are approaching manhood and have self-esteem issues needs a father's guidance. Now to be fair they're are MANY children of single parents homes who grow up to become fine citizens. But more often than not it is harder socially and financially. Nature dictates that two opposites create a child, so that must mean that two parents are needed for different roles in the child's life and upbringing. Yes sometimes animals do not need two or even one, however we are not animals. We are Humankind or more to the point Mankind...MAN AND WO-MAN.

I'm surprised to see how eager people are to pounce on single parents. While I don't advocate for young uneducated women to get pregnant on purpose so they can get on welfare, I wouldn't condemn anyone who is divorced, widowed or separated from their kids' other parent, because those are not circumstances one asks or wishes for. Also, it's not the number of parents in the home that spells success for the children, but what each parent does for their children. I am a single mother myself, I'm not living off anyone's taxes, and my children are polite and do well in school. Why? Because I am an involved parent, that's why. Interestingly enough, since I also work at their school, I see a lot of bratty kids with -guess what!- 2 parents in the home!
And here's a thought: since half of all marriages in the US fail, half of you who are quick to condemn single parents will at one point join our ranks. See you then!

God created man and woman to create a child, therfore it would take both parties to raise that child properly....Give that child a God fearing Dad and Mom with God's word to live by daily and he will know right from wrong. Too bad this is what's missing in our world.

children need guidance and discipline thank god for grandparents

The gov't has been trying to take the place of fathers for decades. It is finally catching up. Public school grad rates are horrible. Wonder why? The consequences of liberal govt policies invalidating and damaging the family structure.