The rate at which single parents (especially women) are turning a blind eye to abuse being meted out to their children is very alarming. Their teenage daughters are raped and helpless children violently abused and sometimes killed by so-called partners.
A woman was jailed for killing her child because ‘her boyfriend was ready to marry her but he said her child is his problem’. This clearly is a woman who put marriage first before the welfare of her child. If a child is a problem for any man/woman who wants a relationship with you, let them go because the child won’t just disappear like a boil or pimple.
Sometimes, in a quest by single parents to find father and mother figures for their children, they end up taking one step forward and 3 steps back. They allow their partners to negatively influence their relationships with the children. It’s very easy to start dating or have relationships when you’re single but it’s not easy when there are kids involved.