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Single parenthood – Fashion of our times or a problem going into the future?

Single parenthood – Fashion of our times or a problem going into the future?

Parenting, no doubt, is a God-assigned responsibility too heavy to be left to only one person to carry for 18 years or beyond.

That is why in His wisdom, God gave each human being two parents to provide the complementary roles of parenting.  The ideal norm is for both parents to give their uttermost to the growing child so that together they would prepare him or her for responsible adulthood.                                     

Unfortunately, what do we see today?  Single parenthood has made mockery of this God-assigned role.

 

Child conventions

It is also not by chance that appropriate bilateral conventions recognise age 18 as the outset of adulthood, a period when the individual may be considered in some decision making.  It is all to say that below 18 years, one would need  parental guidance in life.  Interestingly, constitutions of some sovereign states also take into account the fact that any age below 18 years is regard

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