HEAVY RESULTS OF SINGLE PARENTING- BY CLEMENT ERNESTERICK

Statistically, children raised by single parents are reported to suffer many social challenges with 80% being homosexuals, 80% drug addicts, 80% mentally impaired and as a result peopling the rehab centres. But before we can address this vital issue of single parenthood affecting humanity in general,I would like to teach you sth:

It is ambiguous to commonize the usage of single motherhood/fatherhood because as I understand it, it is lexically erroneous, thus improper to say "I am a single mother, I'm raised by a single father..." Such usage of language brings with it a lot of problems as can be seen here and connotes tolerance even approval of gayism; and to an extent creates the innuendo that homosexuality is perfectly okay. Lexicography, syntax: language and grammar, has rules and guidelines for it's usage. 

Like we have condoned "committed suicide" as right but ain't and it likewise amounts to breaking the rules guarding proper usage of language which extensionally reflects victimizing the human person, propagating the ideology that killing self is okay thereby leveraging it, is equally lexically wrong. 

Otherwise, single parenthood should be condemned and people should embrace marriage. Cohabitation, fornication, adultery and other social vices and sins in tandem with stressors, peer influence, poor parenthood styles among others are the causes of these things we mourn and struggle to curb.

© CLEMENT MWAKA ERNESTERICK 

- Nigeria