Single Parents: Is it enough (from an essay in my earlier years) continues

“Children in single-parent families exhibit more non-compliant and deviant behaviour than children in intact families.” (page 257, E.W. Beal. Carol Lynn Pearson however, has a healthy family in her single-parent dwelling. She is the supporter for other families, “My children have become used to seeing strangers sitting on our couch when they walk in from school, and if its’ a woman who looks a little stunned, and perhaps some children, they know we have another battered woman for a few days, here in a safe home while arrangements are made to get her away from a violent situation in her own home…There was the lovely black grandmother with the three children who had watched as their family, had killed their mother. My impulse was to my hands over my children’s ears so they would never have to know that a man had killed his wife (p 77). Being a single parent is difficult. Responsibilities, provisions and caring may become the burden of a sole parent. Support may be required. However, support is also required in many duel parent homes. Being a single parent may be enough provided there is sufficient love and understanding shared. “The world is a battlefield and too often the home is a theatre of war when it ought to be the safe, warm place we all can crawl into to be warmed and renewed. Family violence is in every edition of every newspaper. Is that the result or the cause of violence everywhere else?” (Carol Lynn Pearson, p 78)