While there are many happily married couples of either short or mixed stature others opt to remain single and make very satisfying and successful lives. Some become deeply immersed in work and others enthusiastically pursue outside interets. However they fill their lives, these people are fully occupied. It is always helpful to remember that life can be good without marriage. Possibly the worst of all worlds is to remain aimlessly single, convinced that life will be worthwhile only when a partner turns up.
Parents can help by encouraging independence and self-sufficiency.
However well people of short stature may be integrated into society, there will always be those of average stature who respond inappropriately. The parent who is often embarrassed and just tells the child to be quiet, does nothing to help the child or the person of short stature. Parents can do as much to influence the way their children think about others who look different from everybody else. Careful response Adults are often unsure as to how they should respond to people of short stature. Some average-sized adults talk to very small adults as though they were children, or do not address them directly at all, speaking over their heads to taller companions.