Single Parents and Risk—Healthy or Unhealthy?
Taking risks is one of those things that can feel like a slippery slope for the single parent. We hear from the popular culture that taking risks is a good thing, a person needs to let go, take that leap and go for it! But, when you are the sole support and stabilizing factor for a family that may have already been through major crisis, upsetting the apple cart all over again may not seem like a very good idea. This can cause us to get immobilized and so afraid of making additional mistakes that we resist taking risks at … Continue reading