While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
It's an advantage to have two parents, but to have one parent to stay closely connected and at home during those early years of education can be very very important.
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
I had both my children at home. It came naturally to me.
Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.