We're aware that many of you are from or are currently in a single parent home and there are challenges in that situation.

We're going to talk about them today and hopefully encourage you.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny where to and Danny those challenges are very real.

Give us kind of a summary of some of the bigger aspects of being raised in a single parent home.

Yeah, one of them is the commodity of time and attention.

Right, if there are multiple kids, the less attention you're going to have and you have an

exhausted parent many times that is trying to keep up with things and also just

make ends meet to bring the finances into the home to bring food and there have

been some some families I've worked with that have really struggled to bring in the finances to provide food and clothing and shelter.

And so that in itself can be stressful for kids. And I'd say a big one is just the availability of a parent to be able to access and talk

about life with and to feel a sense of trust and safety and security, that many times is missing in that

single parent home.

It doesn't mean single parents can't provide that.

It means they have to be super intentional about carving out the day in order

to do that and be attuned and attentive with their kids. A few have said, a few kids have said, boy,

that the environment is more peaceful even though it's hard it's

more peaceful now that my parents aren't constantly fighting any chaos and the

scariness of that especially the younger the child,

the better it was for them when it was just,

they could stop, heal, and go through that hardship

that's a little more predictable

than the unpredictability of the conflict in the home.

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