There is no doubt that both parents play a great role in the life of a child. Upbringing of a child can be so emotionally draining sometimes,where the other partnerwill be able to assist and make it lighter expecially training a male child is mostly always tough for mother where it gets to some stages and the mother won't be able to handle him so well again and would need a man hands but nevertheless, as single parent upbringing does not determine the child will be miserable or go astray .
My dad has always been an agile man when I started to recognize him as my dad , it was my dad that do attend any of our school's occasion from our Nursery school till we graduated from secondary, that's not just me but all his kids. My teachers and classmates do not know my mom,they only know I have a mom bcos I told them that. My dad works in a government sector then which is a bit far from home, he would wake up as early as 4 am in the morning and comes back very late at night but he will never joke with his days off, He do have 2 days off in a week. During his off days,he would visit our school even without our knowledge to come check on our performance in school from our teacher and even gave them cash so they could focus on us and punish us when we fuck up. He listen to our complaints even if you are him up in the midnight. He has always been the one to register us to school, where we will only give directions and address to our mum but she won't come.
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When the company he was working got sold off to a private company,all the work employment was discontinued and that is how my dad became jobless. After some years ,the job he could get pays him little that he could not fund all his responsibilities anymore . My mum decided to take up from there and assist my dad after she had also spent all her business money for feedings and school for us , she started a 12 hour daily work ,she will go in the morning and come back very late in the night . My dad wasn't pleased with it but has no choice but then my dad now took caring of us and the home more serious that he would most times cook before my Mom comes back from work,when we the children can cook already,he still will be with us in the kitchen to direct us.
If it has only been my dad then ,I am sure I would still have been brought up well and achieve what I have achieved now and if it has been only my mom then too nothing would have actually changed because they both worked together and even switch responsibility roles when it is needed.
My point is ,it is not about having both parents but having potential parents ,it can be a parent or parents. It's how committed,how attentiveness and how far a parent is willing to go to be behind every steps taken by the child is what determined a child's future .
