Single Parent families

I thought today's class was very interesting because it was talking about single parent families and I could relate to this. I happen to come from one so it hit me personally. I thought some of the statistics that was given were some what false because my mother has a good income for a single mother and the child support was just a supplement to add on to my mothers income. My mother also had support from my family (my grandparents) they looked after us a lot of my mother had something she had going on for work. I think support is the difference when being in a single parent home because I think the support pushed u through the hard time you may have emotionally and financially.
Another thing that I thought was true is that as a child coming from a single parent home I learned to me more independent and know that I can not rely on other to get things I want or need. Also it is not hard for me to take on responsibility. I hope we get discuss this more in class because there is a lot more thing that could be talked about.