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Originally Posted by AnnieK

It's all personal experiences though.

I am a single parent of a 12 year old boy....his dad is not really in his life so I am mum and dad. He is an amazing kid. He does well at school, he is polite and respectful. He hasn't had a male role model since he was 5. Divorce doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing for kids. It was far healthier for my son to be brought up by me alone.

Yeah, that's a different experience from me. I had the first twelve years of my life growing up in a family unit. And then at a big stage in my life (coming into my teens) that life I knew and grown up in and I was normalised with was changed forever.

I know myself that I was a totally different person. I chose life paths that I wouldn't have done if I'd have been in a family unit.

My dad worked during the week so I only really saw him on the odd weekend. And because my mother became a single parent, she went out to work which meant I would stay off school because there was nobody there to make me go. So while most kids my age where doing there exams, I was getting stoned in my bedroom.