Statistically speaking single mom families are impoverished, rate the highest for children involved in crime, and generally do not compare in quality to a two parent home. Do you want to be another single mom statistic? Should we live and run our homes with no hope of beating statistics just because we're single moms? I for one won't stand for it!
In my opinion, the best way to keep kids out of crime is to be there for them. Be their role model. They need you. Listen to them and above all else be HONEST with them. If you make a mistake, own it, you're not perfect and no one should expect you to be. A child that can see a single mom learning from her own mistakes is more likely to learn from their own. Let them know you're human and you have your faults but that your not going to let them get you down. Kids are like sponges they learn quick and they learn best from what they see.
The only way to stay out of a poverty income bracket is to work. Plain and simple, but the term poverty is used rather loosely these days and should therefor be redefined. Poverty no longer just means that you are out on the streets looking for a hand out with no shelter, clothing, safe drinking water, or food as it was originally meant. No. These days we consider poverty to be anyone on state assistance, anyone that is barely making ends meet, and anyone that doesn't have High Definition TV. Okay, well, maybe HD has nothing to do with it but I think you get my point.
So statistically, yes, most single mom families fall into a poverty bracket. So what do you do? Mope and groan and let someone else's statistical data beat you down? You could, but then what would you be teaching your children? Honestly, you don't need all the niceties that life has to offer. Yeah they're cool to have and go ahead and splurge when you can afford it but don't base you life on how many toys you have to play with, or how many designer clothes you have in your closet. Material things come and go. Stick to what's important! A good moral family base is definitely well over-looked.
Now some people may scoff and say how can a single mom family even have a good moral base? No matter what your situation it shouldn't matter how you became a single mom. Whether it was by divorce or by some other means that shouldn't define you. As I've said before everyone makes mistakes. It's not your mistakes that define you it's how you learn from them. Don't listen to what people say. I'm sure if you looked hard enough everyone is a statistic of some sort and never forget it's a known fact that statistics can be made to say anything. So my suggestion? Run! Be free! And live your life to the fullest unbridled by today's idea of a single mom. Why? Because we're breaking the mold!
Great article! You're right. We as single moms are the only ones who can change it. We can sit around feeling sorry for ourselves, or we can change the situation. It's hard work, but it CAN be done!
By the way, I heard once that something like 90% of all statistics were made up on the spot.
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In my opinion, the best way to keep kids out of crime is to be there for them. Be their role model. They need you. Listen to them and above all else be HONEST with them. If you make a mistake, own it, you're not perfect and no one should expect you to be. A child that can see a single mom learning from her own mistakes is more likely to learn from their own. Let them know you're human and you have your faults but that your not going to let them get you down. Kids are like sponges they learn quick and they learn best from what they see.
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