Trauma That Occurs in Many Single Parent Homes
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Raising kids by yourself isn't easy. To help encourage single parents in your community, John and Danny address some of the challenges single moms and dads face. Also, Jim Daly speaks with PeggySue Wells and Pam Farrel on some of the struggles children in single-parent households deal with.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the show, we'll be examining some of the common struggles that single-parent families face. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny, and Danny, what are some of the common things that single parents face kind of behind the curtain in private that we don't necessarily know about? |
| 0:20.5 | Well, first of all, they don't have |
| 0:21.5 | somebody to come off the bench, right, John? I mean, when things are getting, either you're tired |
| 0:26.9 | as a parent or things are, you know you've lost your emotional top. You can't call someone in on that. |
| 0:36.3 | And that, that can be exhausting. Parenting can be exhausting. And so that's one of |
| 0:40.7 | them. The other one is financial stress. The reality that a single parent household has a tremendous |
| 0:46.4 | amount of financial pressure is very true. The other one is when there is co-parenting, communication, custody issues, different |
| 0:56.1 | parenting styles, that can create a whole other dynamic that is very, very stressful. |
| 1:01.1 | And for single parents, I consistently hear balancing work with being relational, both |
| 1:06.4 | them take different parts of me, different parts of my energy. It is very, very difficult for a parent to come home after all the work and then pour |
| 1:16.7 | into their kids very intentionally and also take care of the house, take care of dinner, |
| 1:23.4 | and putting everything together for the kids and getting them to bed. |
| 1:27.1 | By the time they are going to bed. By the time they, |
| 1:28.5 | they are going to bed, they just feel spent. I feel spent as you describe it. Yeah. It's a tough |
| 1:35.0 | and then discipline. Discipline takes energy. It takes focus. It takes wisdom. And you have to |
| 1:40.0 | pause and think. And when you have all these things pouring in on you, it is a known fact from |
| 1:46.1 | brain studies that it's hard to make decisions when you have so much pressing on you, so many |
| 1:52.1 | different things distracting your brain. It takes extra energy. And many times, I know single |
| 1:58.6 | parents go, well, I'll just deal with that later. And it begins to accumulate. |
| 2:02.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.6 | Well, last time we talked about hope and having fun in your family as a single parent. |
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