It Is Not Easy To Be A Single Parent
Copyright (c) 2013 Frank Karlana
No one would argue that it's easy being a single parent. Discovering time to work with you child can be hard even as you try to do your best. The costs associated with raising children are handled with one income including health care, childcare and other costs and can pose a financial problem for the single parent. Unemployment creates an even more trying situation. Suggestions and ideas to help you handle you life as a single parent follow.
Developing a web of people you can use a safety net when you become a single parent is incredibly helpful. Analyzing cultures throughout the world historically, whole communities brought children up along with parents and extended family. Though it is hard to replicate in current times, you can use it as a guide. Make sure you reach out to family members, friends and anyone else who can help you. Often, older relatives will help if only you ask.
Having children means having emergencies, so you need to be prepared for them beforehand, so you will know what to do. When you have no one to help you, like a single parent, it is even more important. When you are ready for an emergency, you will have a list of people to contact who can help, such as your family members. This doesn't necessarily have to be a life or death situation, but even something like you being a couple of hours late coming home because of a problem at your job or with your vehicle. There are services that will send out babysitters with little notice, and since you may need something like this, it would be a good idea to know about where they might be.
Dating as a single parent has its own set of challenges, and that is why many people never move beyond being a single parent. A lot of single parents are concerned that children will cause no one to want them. Since most single parents are women, it has been up to men to be willing to date women with children, and more are now in that category today. Single parents are usually working, or at places with other single parents, which might not be the best places to meet people for dating. To find the right person you need to know what type of person you want, and then put yourself where that type of person might be, such as health clubs, churches, coffee houses, or many other places where your child can be, but never forget the possibility of the never-expected totally-chance meetings that do happen.
Today, there are options that never existed before for single parents. You can find support groups and online forums to meet other single parents. Many businesses and public places are child friendly, so there are lots of places you can bring your kids. Single parenting is no longer something unusual, which can at least help to lessen some of the difficulties that it comes with.
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