Challenging the single mother stereotype
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Challenging the Perception of Single parenthood
I can clearly remember the day everything changed. I was eighteen years old and looking through my family's photo albums, I happened upon an interesting photo. As I pulled out the last album and dusted it off I noticed that on the cover was a beautiful picture of my mother in her twenties. Looking at her as a twenty something year old woman completely changed my perspective of her everlastingly and ultimately our relationship.
I was raised in a single parent family that consisted of my mother, brother, and me. Until I found the photograph, that opened my eyes, my mother was not a woman, she was my mother and that was all. I did not see her as someone's friend, coworker, or even a girlfriend. She existed only as my mother and her role in my eyes was much like the historical perspective of a good mother, which is characterized by a woman who gives her whole life to her children and is the glue that holds the family together. She was there providing loving care and support that I needed as her child. She was my nurturer and that was the only role she played...