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Do children need two parents to become well- adjusted adults? Why or why not?

I think children do not need two parents to become well- adjusted adults. I feel that a child can grow up and function correctly with one parent just fine. Just because someone has a mom and no dad, or vice versa doesn’t make them any different from anybody else in society. What takes two people to do, sometimes just one person can handle it on their own. There’s an old saying “Two great minds think alike”, when in real life it should say “One great mind thinks alone.” There are plenty of single parents out in the world who are raising their child or children all by themselves, it is not impossible to do. Even though it is good to have both parents in a child’s life while growing up, it sometimes just doesn’t happen. One parent can easily give a child all the love and care they need if they put their all into it, which consists of blood, sweat, and tears. There are many children who were raised by just one parent, for example Barack Obama. His parents divorced when he was only two, he was raised by his mother. After that his father was never that much there with him, so his mother was a single parent. Even though he didn’t have both of his parents in his life, he grew up and went on to graduate from Harvard law school, and is now our 44th president of the United states. You can not tell me that’s not well-adjusted enough for a person only being bought up with one parent? A two parent home doesn’t make a child a better person, it’s the support and love the child gets from someone, whether it be just be from a mother or just a father.