Negative perception of children that come from single household…

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A single-parent child has many challenges that he or she is facing. First the child is facing

discrimination with friends they are having, also there is a lot of depression in the child when

their parents’ divorce, this really affects the child both physically and mentally. Stress is also a

challenge that a single parent child is facing. This child has a problem but fails to tell maybe to

his/her single parent and as a result the child thinks of making some suicidal attempts to leave

this filthy world.

Keywords: discrimination, stress, psychiatric illness, and suicidal attempts.

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A single-parent child has many negative perceptions of how they view life. At times this

child thinks that everyone is against him/her (Zartler, 2014). Even though friends might help in

correcting the person, he/she feels that that is abusive the friends are mocking him/her either

physically or mentally. At times the child might suffer from psychiatric disease (Jauch C., 1977).

One of the common reasons why there are single parenting is because of a divorce, this

when the two parents break their covenant, they made of living together, this way it affects the

child by limiting the child some of the basic needs that both of parents were providing. As a

result of this the child might think of using an abusive drugs like bhang and cocaine in relieving

the stress and pain that he/she is undergoing (Webster-Stratton, 1990).

A single-parent child is always feeling discriminated by friends they are having, they

think that the reason for their parents departing is because of him/her and therefore that child is

living in life of regretful (Cheng, 2023).

A single parent child is always having some challenges lets say homework, sometimes

the father was the one helping the child in doing the assignments they were given by the teacher

in school, when this same parents perishes or dies, the morale this child was having with gradual

time it will cease, and the performance for this child will go low until to the point the teacher will

cane this student and this might cause a huge problem since the child might run away from

school and also at home and will bring stress to the single parent who also have some burden in

terms of stabilizing the needs to the family (Fuller ML., 1986).

In conclusion, a single-parent child should try as much possible to understand the

situation of their parent and he/she should at least help the parent in terms of financial support,

and to parents, they should try as much as possible not allow divorce wife or husbands.

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interactions." Journal of clinical child psychology 19.4 (1990): 302-312.

Zartler, Ulrike. "How to deal with moral tales: Constructions and strategies of single‐parent

families." Journal of Marriage and Family 76.3 (2014): 604-619.