LDSWorld-Gems Click here to receive email every day from LDSWorld. Read inspirational articles and stories. There are many single parents doing their best, but the ideal is to have a mother and a father to rear their offspring.
Most single parents do really well until the children reach the teen years.
If the mother is the sole parent, it is difficult to discipline children as big as you are. There is a tendency to indulge, not enforce family rules, to feel guilty they don't have a father at home. The children then often show disrespect, are disobedient, and difficult to manage. Number of young men not going on missions. The church has just increased in size.