Single Parents Beware
Identifying
There are over 200 classified forms of mental illness. Some common disorders are clinical depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, schizophrenia and anxiety. Symptoms may include changes in mood, personality, personal habits and/or social withdrawal. Single parents are at a higher risk than traditional families with both parents living in the home.
In no way, shape, or form is this article demonizing young males. LIFEstyle Resource Magazine is shedding light on a growing problem in ghetto communities across America and the world. Young males are also victims of abuse and lack guidance for leadership. However, this article is about young women because they bear the burden of motherhood, a target for human trafficking and prostitution. Many youth across America suffer low self-esteem and often are the victims of suicide, drug use and alcoholism.
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Paid programming from media outlets perpetuates false narratives to young, influential minds. (article on leadership). Young adults from fatherless homes need leadership, self-esteem, personal development, and edification. Family bonds are weak or broken because of fatherless homes or protective leadership. Therefore, young women and men seek emotional bonds outside the home (Cinderella Syndrome). Neighborhood crimes affect communities as young men seek validation from gangs and drug dealers to prove themselves. However, growing up in a fatherless home doesn’t mean you can’t learn the skills to develop healthy partnerships as an adult.
Isolating A Problem
Have you ever heard of the word grooming? This is a rhetorical question. Of course you’ve heard of grooming. It’s used in the cosmetics, fashion, health & beauty industries. There’s another type of grooming used by pedophiles, gangs, human traffickers and drug dealers. Are you aware most dysfunctional homes are single parenting women who are HOH or head of household? Criminals target single-parent homes such as these, making parenting arduous. Criminals and abusers seek youths from broken homes, abandoned, with daddy issues, with emotional trauma or love starved. It may also be a dysfunctional family member who is the criminal or abuser. e.g. cousin, uncle, aunt… Beware!
Young girls seeking validation are prime targets for criminals and abusers. Young ladies who lack self-confidence are subject to empty promises. Abusers promise teens a lifestyle of luxury unwitnessed in poor environments or at home. Having young men say how special or pretty they are is commonplace for a emotionally starved and scarred teen. Bribery with gifts, money and other trinkets is used to lure youth into a false sense of security, especially if it’s unaffordable by the single parent. Drugs are used to cause confusion in judgement, weariness to lower teen’s defenses. Drugs, peer pressure and abusers convince young teens their parent is old-fashioned in moral teachings, or their single parent is jealous of this dysfunctional union.
There are resources in place which educate single parents. Some single parents do not attend PTA meetings in ghetto areas after a hard day of work. Often, it’s dangerous to walk in neighborhood streets after hours. Parents spending 2 or more hours in mass transit, having to cook, clean, yard work if any, assist kids with homework, funds limited, the parent’s stress is at an all-time high. The average minimum wage job doesn’t pay for decent housing, healthcare, childcare, utilities, clothing, food, etc. Free appropriate public education (FAPE) for 12 years obviously isn’t enough for disabled youth. Keeping young people occupied with sports, music and other activities works, but isn’t enough. Although these goal-setting tasks are helpful, getting to the core of a person’s mental health and emotional well-being requires more than what’s taught in schools.
Solving Problems
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“There’s a group of guys who cling together. Their parents have given them everything in life except one thing, discipline. Now they spend their time taking advantage of good-natured people by bullying them. They think that’s the equivalent of being a man”.
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Here are a few helpful things to focus on:
- Teach young men to be better men by respecting themselves and women
- Teach young women to value themselves and to guard their reputation.
- Recognize change in youth behaviors. Nip it in the bud before puberty.
- Attend biblical or group study for religious instruction _ may help.
- Family activities that encourage personal development and coping skills.
- A savings or investment strategies for parents.
- Leading by example helps but not guaranteed.
- Invest in your family and loved ones. There are no guarantees in life, just do your best.
How to spot deception
Deceitful people always want spiritual things unearned which devalue you, for easy manipulation and control. e.g. mind, body and soul. They are narcissistic. They want blood, so guard your reputation well.
What to do if the abuser is a close family member.
“Deception is the birthplace of all pain. The first clue to dishonor is to request something unearned. What you refuse to learn from other people, you learn from pain. Dishonor is a choice, a character decision”. pg. 38 ~ Mike Murdock 7 Laws You Must Honor to Have Uncommon Success.
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