(Oldie but a goodie)
This seems to be a topic that’s not spoken about often and I wanted to really touch the subject of single family homes.
A single parent seems to be such a common thing in household now a days that I’m always asked how’s my mother doing, but never my father. I call this family censorship (being sensitive to the fact that the person only has one parent). What was once abnormal has now become our societies norm.
I remember my first time hearing about parents separating, I was in the 6th grade and my friend Dennis told me about his step father. I didn’t know what that was, than he explained to me about a divorce and remarrying. and a few kids in my class were also in the same boat. At. That tender age ignorance kicked in hard, so I thought anything could happen and my parents would break up. What I saw as a strong bond at that point seemed so fragile.
Recently I found it interesting when I had a conversation with a friend and she was shocked to know that I had a father. I was telling her how annoyed I was with all these errands my father was asking me to do for him. She just blurted out “you’re father is still around?, and he lives in the same house with you? Man you’re the only person I know who’s father is around.”. Of course I found her just exaggerating a bit, but at the same time it took me back that someone would just assume that I was in a single family.
It kind brings up something really interesting, what happened to the people who looked up to the Cosby’s. All the talk about of wanting to be parents like the Huxtable’s or having them as parents. I remember wanting to go Hillman, having a family, and having a loving wife to build that family with. So, what happened? What happened to the generation who looked up to Cleavers, Partridges, Brady’s and Huxtable’s. A question which will go unanswered for a long time.
I just don’t know why there are some fathers and mothers who were raised in single family homes doing the same, willing depriving their children of both parents. This was just a thought, but it really seems to be a norm in our society and communities.
Think about it people where have we failed or gone astray.
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