Being a Single Parent

Being a single parent is no longer a reason for shame. It is becoming a normal situation in our society. Woman and man all over the world face this situation in their everyday life. Being a single mother or less common situation- being a single father does not come as a reason for blame and making evil judgements. Neither do we feel sorry for them because we understand that at some point the development of our society became totally wrong and out of control, and single parents are just a result of all that. We secretly hope and pray God so it does not happen with me and my family, because non of us is protected by this, are we?

But why did this happen? Is it really my fault, or is it the fault of my ancestors? A social political movement that started in nineteen sixties and what we all know as a`sexual revolution` is another example for this process of our degeneration. A pleasure without responsibilities: is this to be blamed for all those single parents and examples that we have today? But from the other hand: society wanted to brake through something and that is why revolutions were made, and everything what our ancestors experienced and made, it all led for a better future or better rules in a society. So today society faces many single parents all around the world, but another question arouses: is it better than it was before? Or maybe another revolution has to be made in order to make another change and exclude and eliminate single parenting out of our society?

Being a single parent is a difficult task to handle, because You don’t get a support and understanding from your partner. A single parent faces the same problems as fully equipped families, but the difference is that a single parent must be stronger and do the work for two. Not loosing faith in joy and happiness, teaching and rising up children, having a full time job and earning money, taking care of house hold, himself and children- all this and much more duties lies on the shoulders of parents. Can a single parent be strong enough to handle all this?

From the other hand, being a fully equipped family does not always guaranty full happiness and equality. There are many bad examples, where children or some of the partners sometimes whishes to go away and live separately. Husband beating his wife, wife having an addiction to alcoholic drinks, debates and moral punishments every life, mother in law who does not accept the choice and newly founded family of her children. So at the end we come up to question: does it make any sense to keep a fully equipped family, if the quality of life does not increase?

Anyway, I strongly believe that nature did a very good decision, when she decided that children can be made only in cooperation of two partners. In this way we discover many advantages in disadvantages in ourselves and in the structure of our society. It makes us to ask this type of questions. We live our lives like in the never ending examinations, where every day new tests are given to us. But after all, we are individuals, and nature made it this way: when one partner gets sick or dies, the other partner takes care of the sick one and the children that both partners have made earlier. In this way we have made built a long-lasting society, so as a results: single partners don’t come as an unacceptable fact nor as a reason for refusal. It comes as an exam given to us by nature and we simply have to do one thing: to live, be happy and build a strong society around us.