I was curious what is the make up of people in our community who were raised in a 2 parent home compared to a single parent home.
If you come from a Single parent home, what were the circumstances? Did your parent never marry? Did your Parents Divorce? Or Is your parent a widow?
My parents were married for nearly 40 years and Divorced when I was an adult and living on my own.
When my dad was terminally ill with colon cancer, my mom divorced him because she didnt want to be a widow.
I was like....wow Mom!
Please share with me your family unit growing up.
I was raised in a single parent home, then my grandma, then my mom, then my grandpa, then back with my mom, then my mom and adoptive dad
@twshield it wasn't too bad. Lot better than many
Both my parents were absent. Have no memory of my mother. She left when I was young enough to forget her. Never heard from her after that. I was stashed in a catholic home for kids by my dad, so I guess you would consider that foster care. Raised by nuns for almost 10 years.
2 parents. They were married for almost 50 years before my father passed away 4 years ago.
The answer is complex for me my dad asked for a divorce because mom had an act of infidelity. My mom remarried to a guy that would travel when he was home he was an awful person to me and my younger brother. My mother had moved us far away from my dad. I was unable to tell him about the abuse at home. If I had as you can imagine abusers tend to threaten their victims with even worse punishment if they tell. Did not see my dad from about the age 8 until was 17.5 years old. After one rather violent innocent at home I left at 16 while my mother was still collecting support checks. Going to school at night I worked during the day. I had decided to join the Navy at 17.5 intended to dropout of high school to do so (I was held back a year why time frame seems off) I need my dad signure to do so. He invited me to come stay with him to finish and get my diploma. My dad had no idea what was going or that I was living on the streets for nearly 1.5 years.
They divorced when I was about 5. Y chromosome donor couldn’t stop donating them to other people.
@twshield yeah well that’s about all he did.
I had two parents, but unfortunately before I was born, they converted to Mormonism.
So you wound up with like 8?
@NothinnXpreVails Yeah, my parents wanted three kids when they got married, but after converting they decided to have six kids, so the family was eight altogether.
My Dad was an abusive alcoholic and philandering bastard..he lost our home so Mom had to move us into public housing in 62..
Parents divorced when I was 7. Raised by both parents and my father's parents. All fine people who influenced the way I look at the world in ways I didn't realize till I was in my 40's. I miss them every day.
I had two birth parents both emotionally wounded by war experiences, neither of them were capable of being parents. Mother Bi-polar father Depressive so I left home at 15 y.o. adn constructed myself - looking back I am grateful to them for letting me go so easily.