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Adjusting To Being A Single Parent
from: Karlie BestlerSingle parents are effectively left with the task of sole parenting and all related roles and responsibilities of raising children. Single parents are lone caretakers and sole supporters of the family. A single parent has to cope with all the care giving, nurturing, role modeling, challenges, rewards, obstacles and joys meant for a partnership of two. It can be overwhelming and and extremely tough to be a single parent having no one to share the load of responsibility.
Personal circumstances, divorce, abandonment, and death of partner are some of the main reasons that leave the main custodial responsibilities of raising children to a single parent. Few parents are really prepared for dealing with the aftermath of the loss of a partner regardless of the cause. Feelings of desperation, being overwhelmed and stressed out are very typical. Single parenting demands can seem like insurmountable challenges on any given day.
There are different stages in this process of becoming, learning to live, functioning and thriving as a single parent:
1. It starts out with an assessment of the situation and a reality check. It will take some time for yourself and your children to work through the challenges this new situation and set of circumstances and transitioning into being a single parent.
2. Structuring and organizing the new family unit to function under new circumstances and surroundings. All the household responsibilities will now fall on your lone shoulders and you will need to restructure how the family functions to meet the needs of all the individuals in the family, as well as how the family functions as a collective unit.
3. Functioning as a family. Fostering relationships and establishing bonds, trust, honesty, disciplines, roles and responsibilities of each family member.
4. Establishing a support system to help with responsibilities of school, family, friends, and family management.
5. Dealing with specifics of death, divorce, abandonment
Being a single parent is a process of adjusting to a gradually unfolding series of events in which you must:
* Master new demands
* Help your children cope and thrive, despite change, loss and adjustment
* Cope with your own feelings and emotions
* Move from old to new context and reality, and even uncertainty
Being a single parent is a work in progress and it will take time.
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