Did you grow up with both your parents living together..........

My Mom and Dad got divorced when I was 5 and both of them re-married other ppl. It's not the greatest thing and there were a lot of rough spots but all in all we survived. I'd rather grow up with my parents apart then have to live with them fighting all the time. I think if they can live together happily then it's great but kids shouldn't have to listen to screaming and yelling all the time...all that's doing is making not only the parents miserable but the kids as well. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG AND TRUST IN GOD**[/b]

Yes, I grow up with both my mom and dad. I believe that a child who grew up under the care of both her/his parents will live healthier because of the love s/he can gets from them. Life can be complete if both parents are there for their child because I believe so that those factors can contribute to her/his individual growth.

I've grow up with my parents,itis not matter if you grow up with a single parent as long as he/she teaches you good values about life.and it is also on the environment where you grow up.When i was 18 i was living on my own but the teachings of my parent about good values remains on my heart and this values also are my my guidelines to raise my children my children now.

I am lucky with my parents for i dont seen them fighting in my entire life. They are married for 37 years and still going stronger. My mother is a very kind person that i dont see her nagging with my father or anybody else. She love us all of her children so much that i cannot ask for more. My father is a good deciplinarian, he is the one who train us to be a better person. I think it is really a good thing for all of us siblings for we finish our college degree with pride and honor despite of luck of financial capacities for my father is the sole provider of 6. When my older sisters go to college they are a working students until they graduated they they help us their younger sibling to pay tuition fees so all of us can finish our degree. I am very greatful to my parents and to my older sisters for they support my college tuition fees. Now that all of us are already working with our respective job. I am so happy to say that poverty is not a hindrance for success if you work hard and by helping each other you can still make a difference.

I did grow up with both my parents living together, and there was never a thought of separation. Though there are some financial problems, my parents still manage to keep intact their family.

My parents was divorced when i want take my spm exam.. and my father get married 1day before exam..im very sad.. after my exam i run off to my mother.. i think i will safe if i live with my mother..

I grew up in a broken home and I was determined to keep my own family together from the moment I decided to become involved seriously, get married and have children. I knew after being shuffled back and forth from one home to the next as a child that was not something I wanted my kids to go through. So, yes I would say that had an influence on the way my life has turned out. I have been with the same man since I was just about 15 years old. We had our first child just after I turned 17 and though it hasn't been easy we have fought the good fight and held onto the relationship.

hi daffodil! yep! i am one of those blessed to have parents living together while we were growing up. but really, there are also ups and downs. like getting to see them fight. my parents are not exactly perfect, although i can say that they tried their best to take care of us and rear us to become responsible adults. now that i am married and having a baby in my womb now, i think that relationships of parents are important for the proper development of the child to become a wellbalance adult. take care and God bless you!

No, I don't grow with my both parents together. My father is working abroad and we stayed with my mom at home. It is difficult for us since we don't really know the attitude of my father when it comes to personal relationship with him. Two years ago, after I graduated, my father decided to bring us( me and mo mom) with him abroad but since, we don't stay together for a long time, it was hard for us to understand each other. Until, finally, he decided to bring me back home. It is really difficult for a child to grow up without both parents around them, so as much as possible, make your family closer.

Hello Daffodil. I am glad that I grew up living together with my parents and siblings. But now since I am married, I have a home of my own and do not live with them in the same house. Yet, I still miss my parents very much and often call them though I am not able to visit them every so often as I work faraway from them. Well, I think that to grow up with your own parents is a wonderful thing as we can get parental love from them and we feel warm and happy with their gentle love to us kids. It is so true that parents have a great influence to their kids. A good and happy family atmosphere is a wonderful one to the growing up of the kids. Thank you for the discussion, friend.

I think it is best for a child to have two parents, but not if they are going to fight and be abusive. A child should not have to choose such a thing. The biggest problem with a one parent family is that there is no place for the child to go for help when the one parent is being unreasonable. Parents may try their best, but it is not humanly possible to be right all of the time. A second parent, if responsible and reasonable, is a necessary safety valve for a child. Also children should not be exposed to just one point of view. They grow up insular that way.

I grew up with both my mom and dad. I do think that living with both mom and dad together is healthy for a growing child. This may greatly affect one's person life if she/he have a broken family or an abusive one. In my high school days, there are only 5 of us out of 40 students in our section that are not living in a broken family. Most of them say that having a broken family have a big impact in their lives. Some in good way while others are bad.

I grew up in the house with my aunts, uncle and grandmother and cousins. With my sister included. It was like nine of us, all living under the same roof. When my mom was living, she stayed with us too. As I got older it was just my aunt, my sister, my cousins, me and my grandmother. My uncle lived with us, before he went to prison. I have never lived with my natural father. I have visited him on the weekends. My grandmother had custody of us. So, I was never able to live with my dad. He had his own family. I used to thought that if me and my sister was to live with our dad, then life would have been better for us. But, I really think that it would be. But, now all that has changed. We were much better off living with our grandmother, where she raised us. My dad as of today has never really been there for us. All he does is fill our heads up with negative vibes. I am glad that my grandmother raised us instead.

I grow up with both of my parents, my brother and sister, cousin and grandparents. It makes a huge difference if you're able to have all the family members in your life. If you're an only child, most of the times parents are too protective and won't allow you to try out stuff. Of course, I'm talking about some friends I know who grew up like that. Also, if one of the parents is abusive, then the environment is not healthy for the child. I've seen abusive parents, I had a good friend of mine who had an abusive father and an overprotective mother and she's not that ... normal. So it depends on each and every situation. Nice subject :)

I am very fortunate to grow up with both of my parent and we have a very harmonious environment

My parents were divorced when I was four. I never saw my dad again until I was in my twenties. Even though I didn't have a dad around, I still had my grandfather and uncle as father figures. I had a good childhood. My brother and his ex-wife still live together for my nephews and for financial reasons. I don't think it's good for the boys because their mom is so depressed all of the time. I don't know how they do it.

I grew up in a household with both parents. But, it wasn't a happy home. Mom and Dad didn't get along well and had quiet "discussions" constantly. The tension was unreal. We never EVER went anywhere as a family. No dinners out, no activties, no movies, nothing. Mom and I did things without Dad, even taking vacations without him since he had no interest. They eventually divorced after 25 years together, thankfully. The odd thing is that while my Dad was a total jerk to both of us when married to my Mom, he is now a very funny, loving Dad. Apparently they just needed to be apart to be happy. Too bad they didn't do that when I was young. It definitely affected me growing up in that type of household. The really sad thing is my son experienced the same thing. My ex husband wasn't the best husband OR father, and I stuck around 21 years before divorcing him. So my son grew up with the same tension I did. Too bad I didn't see it at the time....

I think that kids need to know that both of their parents are happy whether or not they are together. Had my Mom stayed married to my biological father rather than marrying my Daddy(who adopted me) I think my life would have turned out a lot different. Becauce I was able to grow up seeing my parents both happy, I learned to be happy, and how to be in a relationship.I had the benefit of having two parents to guide me in life and teach me what I needed to know when it was time for me to go out on my own. My own children do not even see their biological fathers, but they have a Daddy, just as I do. A man who loves them unconditionally, wants to be in their lives, and loves them as they are his own. For several years, it was only me and my kids, and each year, they told me that they wanted a Daddy for Christmas. It wasn't that I wasn't enough for them, they just wanted a man in the house too. With that said, I think that more than anything, it is important for a child to see both parents happy. I would rather have raised my children by myself than to subject them to a harmful environment full of violence and abuse. If the biological parents cannot get along, and they fight all of the time, in my opinion, it is better for the child to be raised in a single parent home. I think that everything that parents do, and don't do influences a child. If a child grows up seeing that Mommy works hard to take care of them, the child learns to be responsible as an adult. On the other hand, if a child grows up with parents that are out in the bar drinking all of the time, the child is more likely to do the same when adulthood comes. In the meantime, a child in the latter situation is more likely to get into trouble because of the lack of boundaries and guidance. In my opinion, once a woma becomes pregnent, she needs to make every decision thinking of how it will effect that child. When a man becomes a father, he should do the same.

i am growing up living with both of my biological parents, i don;t think there are acutally what is best for a child because that depends on the child and also the parent, but generally i think a child is best with both parents. But if the parens are abusive i rather the child be adopted then stay on hurting and getting harm. I think if a child is lived under abusive atmosphere, no better how well the child is given with love, they are scar forever

i grow up with both my mum and my dad,i think we live together happily.i think we live together donot have bad effects for me.