Were you raised in a single family household?

Question

What impact did it have on you? As an adult do you have any hard feelings against your parent?

Yes, your right.. SINGLE PARENT FAMILY...

Answer 1

You have to understand one thing about single family households... It will vary from person to person. My mom was alway there for me and my three sisters. None of us can ever forget that. Thats why we have such loyalty toward her. (Its one of those things like anything happens to her and there will be issues) My father was never really there. He was an alcoholic and a wife beater so my mom left him when I was young. He attempted to enter our lives from time to time and it didn't work out at all. He never really tried. After the last time we just cut him out of our lives. I was forced to grow in different ways due to the fact that I didn't really have a male influence in my life. Some are going to say that they had both in their lives. I mark them as lucky. Some will not be that lucky. But that is the way that life goes. It's not so much the way people are in someone's life, its what the person takes from it. It can go either really really good, or really really bad. Its up to the person to take their experience.

Answer 2

Yes. Dad left Mum for someone else.

Of course it was hard because before that he was very involved in my life. Mum had to work extra hard to make ends meet because Dad wasn't helping out financially.

But that said, Dad did try to stay a part of my life and he was there when I needed him. I think it's better that they split up because they being unhappy together would have been worse and I wouldn't want to be the reason they were unhappy.

I'm still close to my Dad. It's really up to the parent. If they want to remain in their child's life, they definitely can. If they don't bother, that's when all the madness and blame starts. To be completely honest, I don't think their divorce did much damage to me because although they were no longer a couple, they assured me that the divorce had nothing to do with me and that they both love me. Society's unfair stereotype of single parent family only applies to those where one parent doesn't want to be a parent anymore, not to those where the couples don't want to be together.

Answer 3

I have a lot of respect for my mom because it couldn't have been easy for her.

As for my dad, when I was younger I was very angry towards him for leaving. Now that I've grown up I realize that he has his own problems (mental health issues), and I feel more sorry for him than anything.

Overall, I'm a very independant woman and I think a lot of that comes from being raised in a single-parent household. My mom's a great influence!

Answer 4

i had a great deal of impact, my got re-married when i was 16 and her husband already wanted me out the house. so i struggle until i was 18 and moved with my dad. but ended up with my mom withen a year. i wanted to leave that i party alot and ended up getting peragant, single and having a baby did i realize that i needed to forget my past and look into my furture. now i have a family and doing my best to raise my two kids the best way i can.

Answer 5

I was raised in a single family household. Both my parents and my siblings all lived in one home!

I think the question you wanted to ask is about a single PARENT household, but you asked about a single family.

Answer 6

My mom struggled for years to give us all she could. My dad had money but never gave it to us when we really needed it. He made it out to sound like my mom didn't deserve it and she wouldn't use it for us. So yes, I have some hard feelings towards my dad but I still love him, after all he is my dad. I think my mom could have been a little better with money and some choices she made but she works hard and I respect that. As an adult, I manage my money better, know the mistakes they made, and know that hopefully both me and my husband will be around to raise our child and give him what we didn't have growing up.

Answer 7

My dad left us when I was 11. He left my mom for some other woman. I'm 21 now. Ever since then, it has been really hard for me and my younger sister. It is so hard for us to trust any guy. We end up being control freaks with trust issues because we think they will end up cheating on us, like my dad did. I'm married now, but it is still really hard for me to trust my husband. And yes, I do have hard feelings toward my dad, but I don't express it. My sister and my older brother HATE my dad, so I am all he has. I try to be ok with him. I still blame him for breaking my mom's heart and leaving us when we needed him. I have always vowed to never get a divorce because I don't want my kids to go through what I did.

Answer 8

My parents divorced when I was 5 and I lived with my grandparents until I was 8 and then it was just me and my Mother until she remarried when I was 11 and her new husband threw me out and I lived alone.When I moved in with my Mother at 8 she got me a job as a busboy/dishwasher nights,weekends and summers so I was prepared when I had to move out at 11.I just kept my job and worked from 4pm until 2am everyday.My Mother signed for me for to get a hardship motorcycle license to get to work.I don't know how everyone else lived but I had a great life.I was the only kid in Jr.High with a motorcycle and the only one with his own apartment so there was always plenty of women and girls wanting to help me out!

Answer 9

My mom and dad split when i was 6, and it was very hard on me but i am now a marriage counslor

Answer 10

it didn't have a big impact. i have no hard feeling towards my mom.