Effects of Single Parents

SINGLE PARENTS EFFECT........

        When people hear about parenting they often doing think of the things that can often happen with parenting. In the TedTalk, The Real Effects of Single-Parent Households, speaker Stephanie Gonzalez explains what it is like growing up in a single-parent household. This TedTalk took place at the Carver Military Academy and happened on March 15, 2015. In the TedTalk, Stephanie explains that often times people do not really think about the effects that single parents have on kids; they only think about the parent themselves. This can often hurt the child and make them feel as through this is their fault for the situation that their mother or father is in. This TedTalk is completely relatable to my service learning organization because in Step By Step, one is dealing with single mothers. This means that the child that we are working with are products of single mothers, so we see first hand the affects that they can have on their children.

      In this particular TedTalk, the audience knows that there are single mother in the world and that they often time have an effect on their children. However, what people do not know is the exactly effect the child involved. Stephanie emphasizes that the child is not mad at anyone, they often times are just confused because they want two parents and see other people raised in two parent house holds. They become envious of those kids and just ask themselves why. This speech had a huge impact on the audience because you could hear how everyone was so intrigued by her story and her point of view. The thing that is different about Stephanie is that she is only 17 years old and has a single mother. She experienced everything first hand was here to tell other mothers or single parents that your child will be ok. I found her speech to personally be moving because even though I come from a two parent household, I still feel everything she is saying.

    My only advice for Stephanie would be that she does not use notecards. Now I know that she is only 17 and could be nervous, but there are ways to get around using notecards. This was the only thing that I saw wrong with her speech. The notecards almost diminish the information she was telling because she kept looking down at them, even at times when she was not lost or got distracted. It was like the notecards served as her audience.

    However, the overall speech was very powerful and moving. I feel as though this speech has changed my views on single parenting and has made me realized that it is not easy being a child of single parent. I give a lot of credit to those mother and children.

                  *QUINN INCARDONA*