Greetings, everyone!
Welcome to my blog. I'm happy to be part of this edition, and this featured question is so interesting.
From the beginning, we know that God established marriage, and this union happens between husband and wife. They come together sexually for the process of human formation to take place as it was set by God to reproduce mankind and raise them in a godly way for God to be fulfilled. God instituted this process with two people in marriage; without one another, there wouldn't have been mass production as we have seen in the world.
However, since God started this union with two people, I think that parenting should or must involve the two parties, husband and wife. Both p parents should have the responsibility of bringing up their children, and there will be a big difference in their lives, not just in the ordinary, but involving God through this journey will make a difference in both parents or single parenting.
On the opposite, both parents can raise wayward children. I have seen close neighboring parents who grew up with their children in the old and middle ages of their parents; any little thing done wrong by the children, they would raise a curse on them, and those curses affected those children negatively now in my village. So unfortunate that one of the children is walking mad on the street, from house to house, to beg for food to eat. An intelligent, tall man who was intelligent right from my childhood days, now a madman on the street. The fact is that they also bear the consequences of their curses on their son's head. They took him around places to seek help but they couldn't find one who could heal their son. This is not the way God instructed all parents to train their children. They did it in an ungodly way and they saw the results in an ungodly way. And God might hold them responsible. I'm not judgemental here but God is the judge.
In the journey of parenthood and motherhood, we need God to succeed. It's a difficult task.
Just recently, a single mother taught his son how to steal someone's plantain and banana close to my new apartment. I was inside the house watching them in the early morning, sneakily cutting the banana and plantain, which wasn't theirs. I felt for them at that time, a single mother of 4 children without a father living with them and supporting them as every father would. Within me, it was a big load on her head. The annoying part about her was showing her son how to steal which is not good training or a good foundation for the child.
Overall, the quality of parenting from both parents requires genuine characteristics that will influence the children's lifestyle now and in the future. It requires a combination of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional influence on the children's lives, which will bring positive results to the parents, family, church, and society.
Thank you for reading through.
I love, I care, and I forgive
