Title: Reflection of a Single Parent’s Struggle to Raise Academically and Psychosocially Successful Children
Abstract: The author uses research on children from single parent homes as a catalyst for personal reflection on single parenting. The postmodern approach to research is intended to deconstruct meaning in order to enlighten the audience to the challenges and obstacles faced by students and parents in single parent homes. By creating understanding through meaning, it seeks a call to action by educators to focus attention on this specific population that statistically has poor academic outcomes. Looking back on the past often leads us to the knowledge we need in order to move into the future. Parents often tell their children to improve their futures by ‘learning from my own mistakes,’ but children do not do it. My children do not listen to my advice. I did not listen to my parents’ advice. At the age of 21, I believed I knew what I needed and how I would find the life I dreamed I wanted. Shortly after my twenty-second birthday, I would marry against my parents’ wills. It would last happily for three years before turning into another eight years of discontent. After eleven years and three children, my life would change. I divorced in order to find a better life for myself and my children. If I had only understood how research should guide practice, then I would have possibly made different decisions in my young adulthood. However, I did not, and it would take a drastic life change for me to understand the statistical outcomes my children and I would face in a single parent home.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Language: en
Type: article
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