Generations these days believe that parenthood is based on only having children without considering that this stage in life is more complex than what we tend to believe. Most new parents are not financially stable and once faced with the situation of being a parent, they realize that the stress of not being able to provide the basic necessities can be unbearable. Being a successful parent is a learning process, there must be an awareness that mistakes will be made. There must be compromises made by both parents thus not to confuse the child, especially when both parents have different religious beliefs. In reviewing a young adult’s childhood we should be able to develop a strategy for better parenting in the today’s world because this would empower the young adults with better parenting skills.
The parenting strategies of most young adults may be due to the mode of thinking. Some believe that if their upbringing was of a certain style, then that is the only way it should be. It is uncertain that their parents lack the skills to teach them the core of responsibilities. No one will ever know! Every young adult should be evaluated as an individual and not as a statistic. Each parent should be evaluated in the same manner. Are the religious beliefs a factor? Where one parent’s religious beliefs feels parenting should be instilled with certain criteria while the other parent’s religious beliefs may differ. I have a friend who is Muslim; she teaches her daughter that based on her religion the daughter should be loyal only to her spouse. While on the other side is her father who is Catholic is teaching her to be loyal to herself first and foremost. Does she focus on how to be a good wife and hopefully a good parent or does she focus on...
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