Being a single parent comes with a lot of challenges, and one of the big challenges is the assumptions other people seem to make.
For example, people might assume that because you’re a single parent, you’re in a hardship. There’s a difference between hardship and hard. Single parenting is hard; single parenting is not a hardship.
Another example might be that it’s your fault you ended up a single parent. It takes two to end a relationship just as easy as it takes two to start one.
Maybe you’re a single white mom with multi-racial children. A lot of people assume that the dad just left. Even though that may be true, a lot of the time it’s not, and it’s a really hurtful assumption to make,
Everyone lives their own lives and has their own experiences. At the end of the day, it’s dumb to assume anything about anyone else’s situation.
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