Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.
Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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