How is a child affected by living with 1/no parents?

Question

is a child's mental/physical health damaged by not having 2 parents?

Answer 1

No- I was raiseing somebody else child and he turned out perfect and to this day loves me like I was a relative but I am glad he finally has the home he so needed for the firstv two years of his life. I gave him enough love that he didn't care about his drug addict mother or his missing father. I did have to love him enough to let him go when I realized it was the best thing to do and it worked out fine I still see him but he has two new parents who adore him as much as my husband and I did.

Answer 2

Long as a child has a strong person that is rising them they should be OK. You can't help if they were born with the problems and they later come out and you notice them.
I look at my community everyday and see that it is a lot of single parents or grandparents doing their thing. The children are growing up with more respect because they see how hard it is to keep their head up float. They usually try to do better to help their parents to do better. I think that they are trying to say the 2 parents are better but you can't make no one stay where they don't want to be.
Now I also seen people tell their kids to act like they have problems just to get a check also. On the long run the parents sees that they mad the mistake by having their child act like they have a problem when they don't. They see that they brainwash their child in a way that mess them up.

Answer 3

There may be a sence of loss, but if the person or parent he/her is staying with teaches the child right from worng there should be any problem at all. My husbands aunt is adopted, and she has always known her parents gave her up, but her adopted parents taught her how to live, and they taught her right from wrong, and she is a great person. As long as the person they are with sets a good example, and leads the child in the right direction, there won't be a problem. (The story may be different if the child was abused in any way, but thats a whole nother ball game.)

Answer 4

Are you asking two questions?

A child cannot be raised by no parents. They have to be raised by one parent, either biological or not...doesn't matter as long as there is love and discipline.

I read an article that explained the difference between a mommy and a daddy perfectly...when a child is learning to ride a bike, the daddy "yells you can do it you can do it!" and lets go of the bike.

Mommy yells "Be careful!" Both are neccessary.

In my opinion the ideal is two parents,for me that is a Mommy and a Daddy, but I have gay friends who do a good job too, who first love each other, make a committment to be together forever (ie GET MARRIED and mean it....if legally possible) begin a life together and when they are ready, have a baby.

Then there are hard, hard times where you are certain you have made an error or that your he doesn't love you, but you work through them, because you made a vow and because you have a family.

If both mommy and daddy are healthy people, there is no question that children deserve both parents in a loving home raising them together.....but we all know that accidents happen (I can say this because although my parents were married for 17 years before I came along I was an accident) and we deal with them...and consider ourselves blessed.

If one parent (and it isn't always daddy) is unable to be a healthy parent, then the child is better off with one, healthy, mature parent focused on their needs, than one parent who is trying and the other bringing them down with abuse, addiction, or just plain unwillingness to grow up and be a parent.

My dad was deeply affected by his parents' divorce and it impacts him still today...he has issues with showing his feelings and affection, but his mother handled it poorly (everything was always about her) and his father was an alcoholic.

I see married people today,throwing in the towel because "I'm not happy." Well too stinkin bad and grow up.......when you become a mommy or a daddy it ceases to be about you..........

But I think a child is better off with one solid parent, than to be tossed around by a deadbeat parent either emotionally or physically....you know the dad who is coming on Saturday who never shows up????Better to not have a dad than to be constantly rejected and hurt.

My son adores my husband...I can't imagine his life without him. He used to go to the door every morning until he was 2.5, look in the garage and cry...know he just asks sadly "Did my daddy go to work today?" On the rare nights my husband is out late he'll say "Can you tell Daddy to come in and look at me when he gets home." He runs to him....asks for him during the day. I cannot imagine taking that from either of them because "I'm not happy."

So to answer your question more simply....self esteem issues, a feeling of rejection, feeling different from the other kids, feeling alone, a burnt out parent trying to be everything 24/7..you name it, but all of those things can happen with a lousy parent who is around or around when they feel like it.

Some kids do great! But even if the parents don't want to admit it, something is missing...always.

I'd never go out and do it on purpose, but it can be done.

Answer 5

Well, Yes and no, when the child becomes older they will realize. I wish my Dad was never around because I was so use to him not being there. The child can grow up different than his or her life was expected to be, like they would want to become a parent very soon, because they know that they messed up and that they want a new life to start over. The child will probably grow up promiscuous and foul, but change once he or she is older and realizes that he or she can go on.

Answer 6

I raised my daughter without a father up until 4 years ago. She is 17 now and she is fine. She had contact with her father but he didn't make a difference in her life. He has never paid child support, never bought her school clothes, no birthday presents, or cards, no Christmas presents, never comes to see her. He lives about 2 miles from us. With a father like that, I'd say she done pretty well being raised by only me.

Answer 7

A child does things by themselves. It basically helps them when their older but as a child they tend to be a loner at first. Their mental and physical health will be fine though. They will have lots of friends to have the thing that is missing from them, their parents.

Answer 8

That varies depending on other support systems and people who are involved in the child's life and many other circumstances such as finances, time spent with child on nurturing, and parental education and commitment. The question would need to be broadened to comment wholly on it, sorry.

Answer 9

Look i am a single parent and been a single parent from the beginning and well my baby is perfectly healthy and happy. As long as you show your children the love and care, that they need to grow then they will be fine.

Answer 10

no it,s not because i didnt have to parents and iam fine and i have friends who have babies w/1 parent and there okkkkk!!!!