Single Parent Roles
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Single Parent Roles
Children of single parents need exposure to members of the opposite sex for important reasons: Mothers tend to teach personal responsibility, and soft emotions such as love, compassion, etc. Fathers tend to teach problem solving, assertiveness, and personal limits. Here is an example of how this happens:
Fathers tend to rough house with kids. They throw them up in the air, have mock fights, play football, etc. Fathers also tend to push the limits (i.e., to the edge of crying from too hard of a tackle, to anger at not being able to win). Mothers teach similar lessons (i.e., to gently hold a new baby, to care about the old woman stumbling across the street with her walker, etc.).
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