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.
Actually this answer for me is really a split answer as it I was raised in a two parent home until the age of 11 when my parents divorced and then it was signle parent after that with the parents constantly fighting for custody. We were all of the opinion Dad didnt really want to raise as so much as he wanted to hurt our Mom. Custody went back and forth according to who won and since dad had more money he got us in the end. Overall Mom was the more loving parent.
@misstuffy this sounds a lot like my dad. Minus the fighting for custody. He was content to have me on the weekends. Never did actually pay any child support though. And he was considerably better off financially.
Technically two 2 parent homes.
My parents divorced when I was 6, both remarried within 6 months. I'd known my step mom since 3 and my step dad since 4. Spent 12 years getting driven across town to be traded on the weekends.
Mom's side: very a southern Baptist (drinking bad, smoking bad, cursing bad, sex was a topic we don't discuss EVER). Less well off than my dad's side, but my step father loved tech, so we got the internet when it became available to the public.
Dads side: non religious, but sent me to church because mom insisted, they drank, step mom smoked, and we watched actual movies, had conversations about life and things that mattered. Drugs were a taboo never to be caught with, but they did teach me the ins and outs of "right/wrong"
I got a mix of both sides of the fence on religon, politics, how to interact with others, and many other topics. It just took me getting old enough to move out on my own to finally be able to make up my own mind about all of it.
Two parents until I was 8, all of us kids were removed from home and turned over to the State Home in Waco. Mom divorced my dad a few years later. I ran away from the home at 16 and married 3 months later. My older brother and I raised ourselves and 6 younger sibs.
Though I was raised in a 2 parent home, that is not to imply that everything was rosy. Through my teen years up until I was 18 and moved out, my home was the epitome of dysfunction. Parents fought like cats and dogs over, get this, religion. In the year after I was gone, they divorced.
Though I was raised in a 2 parent home, that is not to imply that everything was rosy. Through my teen years up until I was 18 and moved out, my home was the epitome of dysfunction. Parents fought like cats and dogs over, get this, religion. In the year after I was gone, they divorced.
Mom doesn't want to say who my Dad was. Grandparents helped out some prevented me from being a complete latch key kid.
My father died when I was eight so I was brought up by my mother. I know times were hard but she did a brilliant job, heaven knows how!
Raised by mom and dad until age ten..
Then raised by grandparents thereafter..