Single Parent Households

Single Parent Households A Single parent is a person not living with a spouse or a partner who has all the day-to-day responsibilities of a child or children. Single parent households are common in every generation. In the past, being a single parent was no struggle at all, because things were not as expensive or as hard. In the 21st century, single parent households have their share of daily struggles and disadvantages. The issues of expensive foods, daycares, and clothes, limited time spent with child, balance of work and home duties, and also economic struggles are along the endless problems single parent households have. Single parent households in the Caribbean can be caused by many factors.

One caused of single parent households is unexpected circumstances. These unexpected circumstances can be death, divorce, or rape. Historically death is one broad cause of a single parent households. Diseases like cancer, diabetes, dengue and a lot more can be the result in the death of a spouse which leaves the other partner to take care of the child themselves. Also murder can be a result in death of a spouse which leaves the next partner heart broken, and the responsibility of taking care of a child alone. Divorce with battle of custody is another broad cause of single parent households. Persons getting divorce and have kids in most cases have a battle of which parent is taking the responsibility of the kids. In some cases the mother gets all the responsibility of making all decisions, and who the child lives with. Sometimes in these divorce battles the next partner has no rights at all of the child. Rape is another cause of single parent households. A person being rape can get pregnant, and this person may not believe in killing Gods precious gift to woman, although it was given in way no man would never want it to happen. So in this happening, the person becomes a single mother taking responsibilities which were not planned for.

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