Personal Interview: My Interview With Two Single Parents

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My interview with two single parents

In the world today parents come in various forms from the single parent, to the married parents, and to the divorcing parents just to name a few. Although the individual parent is their own person and they have their own parenting style the goal is still to successfully raise a child into a grown adult. For my interview I chose two close friends who happen to be both single parents with children of the same age. My two friends are from separate parts of the country and don’t know each other. Both have only one child, however Leila is the loving mother of a son and Brendan is the proud father of a daughter. What I found interesting was their similarities as well some drastic differences with their hopes and concerns of becoming new parents.

While waiting for her son, Leila was excited but almost felt bad because she says she didn’t feel as excited as she wanted to with the father not being around. Emotionally it was difficult to prepare for her son knowing the father was gone. As the pregnancy progressed Leila soon started to really focus on her health as well as the babies and began to imagine what he was going to look like once he was born. She began to read books such as What to expect when you’re expecting and asked her sister many questions about raising children …show more content…

I was amazed to learn that as many as one third of families in the USA today are headed up by a single parent.(https://childdevelopmentinfo.com/family-living/single-parenting-challenges-rewards/) Additionally the effects of social skills, behavior, and academic skills can potentially be effected by having a single parent house hold. (http://www.livestrong.com/article/83670-effects-single-parent-home-childs/) Overall, I found that the interviews of my two friends brought out similarities with their worries of being a good parent and differences of how they prepared for the arrival of the

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