Is your family dysfunctional?
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
Philippines
July 2, 2009 5:19am CST
I am a single parent and I reared my two girls alone. Most people would stare at me whenever I introduce myself as such. One school counselor said that most children belong to a normal family. I responded with "That's good, but mine is a dysfunctional one. Just the three of us. No male around." I tell my girls that people have just to accept who we are, dysfunctional or whatever.
6 responses
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
3 Apr 10
Well yours is not dsyfunctional, a real normal one. There are families even with the male who are irresponsible and everyone quarrels or fight with each other. Those are so called dsyfunctional. And we dont have to worry about others comments which i feel worthless.
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@lelin1123 (15594)
• Puerto Rico
3 Jul 09
Ok I raised my two girls without a husband for the first 10 years of my oldest daughter life. I did not consider the three of us as a dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family is one where everyone in the family are not on the same page and always fighting. When a family does not work together in harmony.
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@mjmlagat (3170)
• Philippines
2 Jul 09
hello there! there's nothing wrong at all with you raising your two girls alone by yourself, there's nothing dysfunctional about it. don't mind about the prejudices of people, don't forget nobody's perfect! people are just like that sometimes..they tend to mind other people's lives without arranging theirs first. good luck to you and your girls and be proud, you brought them up the way they should be.
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@smartie0317 (1610)
• United States
2 Jul 09
No, your family seems normal to me. I mean, my family is dysfunctional. They're all very selfish and don't care about each other. Basically, in my family, everyone does whatever they want without caring about each other's feelings.
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@MAllen400 (829)
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2 Jul 09
I am afraid that in England it is fast becoming the other way round! Not many children in a class have a mum and dad married to each other and with neither been married to someone else before. So hold your head high, you are doing a wonderful job bringing up your two girls alone and please dont make excuses to people for being a loving Mum doing a brilliant and very very hard job.
@meandmy3 (2227)
• United States
2 Jul 09
I would not call raising your girls alone a dysfunctional family and there is nothing wrong with what you are doing. I have a lot of respect for single parents, I have no idea how you do it, it is so hard to do it with a husband. I can not imagine being a parent a lone.
To me a dysfunctional family is one that does not work well together, there is a lot of fighting and rebellion from the children
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