If you are a single parent and you don t want your child get affected by your separation, you should exert more effort in helping them especially in dealing with their assignments. This is very important for the kids because they will feel that they can lean on people during their tough times. Helping them with their school tasks will also show how much they are loved and supported to be better individuals. But whatever the situation is that led you to this kind of responsibility, the same thing is true: you are in charge of a child and you must do everything that you can to ensure that he will have a good future and that he will grow up with values. This is a hard task, a pretty daunting task, whether you are just a high school graduate or newly widowed. - keeping the communication lines open. This is important because it s an avenue to assure your teenager of your love and support. Opening the lines of communication can also help the teenager to cope up with sadness he or she feels whenever you're not around. - being a role model. Showing your teenager positive approaches in dealing with single parenting can help him or her acquire those methods when he/she has to deal with other related issues. How many times have we heard stories of parents complaining about their financial situation? Between having to pay for the house rent and paying for medical check-ups and milk, taking care of a kid can be very expensive. But what more if you are the only one bearing the responsibility? How hard can it be? Some single parents, who cannot take the loneliness, cope with it by establishing a super close relationship with their child, which can be too constricting for the growing child. These are the parents who are too strict and are overprotective. Others seek for comfort outside the home by going out on dates and searching for a partner. Aside from being alone in taking care of everything inside the house, single parenting is also more prone to crimes because they don t have husbands or wives to protect them in their own homes. More than men, single moms are prone with are thief or burglary and rape or sexual abuse. Single moms are more prone to crimes such as sexual abuses and even rape because they are all alone in their homes most of the time.