Which gender best as single parent

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I’m likely going to be a single parent and it’s made me think about the gender. Will it be worse for a boy only having a mum around? Obviously I know I can’t do anything about the gender but I want to try and get my head straight before I find out.

I feel like I won’t know what I’m doing as much with a boy

Why do you feel this way? Do you mean while they're a baby or are you looking ahead to teenage years etc?

I'm a single mum to a boy and it works just fine - plus I get to help him learn how to treat the girls/women in his life so I feel like I have a very important job to do!

It doesn’t really matter
i have boys and girls and they where just ‘themselves’
I did make sure they had ‘father figures’ around (grandad,uncles and a few male friends) who where in their lives-they knew they could talk to them if they didn’t want to speak to me
after that I just did my best and they’ve grown up to be warm,loving,kind adults

Do you mean as they get older?

Little boys are so fun to play with.

I have two boys and have been a single parent. Honestly there's no mystical knowledge a man has about boys that makes him a better parent. It's as simple as trying the best parent you can no matter what the baby is.

I have a 9 year old and 6 year old , both boys and I promise Exdh and dp have no more insight than I do in relation to them.

Be quite careful of making assumptions about what a boy will be like. Mine are as different as night and day. One is artistic and gregarious. The other is introverted and science based. There were very few commonalities between them. Ds2 is the life and soul of everything and needed guidance around boundaries and ds1 can fix anything on gids Green earth and needs to be encouraged to talk to other human beings.

In terms of personal care, that's what the health visitors and midwifes (immediately after Birth) are for.

I can't exactly comment on girls as I don't jave any but I will say my dsis is a single parent to a boy and a girl and whilst they are different , it's got nothing to do with them being a girl or a boy , they are just different people.

Both sexes benefit from having two adults caring for them.

Are you trying to decide who has the main custody based on the child’s sex?

I’m a single mum to boys and girls, I have to be honest I think my boys do seem to miss having a father figure more than my girls, seems to impact on them more.

My mum's always been a single parent to both boys and girls. I think she had a harder time with me though. I was a single parent to a boy when I was 17 and it was hell, regardless of the gender. So just depends on the parent I think

Boy

I brought my children up as a single parent and as adults I'm far closer to my son than my daughter. Unlike a PP my daughter hankered after a father figure whereas my son has never been at all bothered.