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Why Kids need STRONG attachment #tealswan #parenthood #motherhood #singlemom #attachment

29 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short interview excerpt featuring Teal Swan discussing single motherhood and child attachment. Teal argues that the single-parent household is not a viable design for child-rearing, emphasizes that children need multiple attachment figures (a "tribe"), and shares that her son has been raised with approximately six to eight parental figures. The exchange critiques societal expectations on women to "do it all," linking that pressure to suffering for both children and mothers.

It's not actually possible to be a single mother. The single family household is not a design that works.
How did that unfold for you, Growing Teal Swan? The community, the global community, while at the same time being a mother.
The reality is, it's been one of the most painful aspects of my whole life. The best decision that I ever made was to get very serious about my son's needs and figure out how to provide those needs while at the same time pursuing this purpose of mine. I know that this is what I'm meant to be doing, but that doesn't mean that I get to neglect my son's needs. So became very obvious to me that he needed multiple attachment figures. Now I'm going to say that all children do. Children are supposed to be growing up in tribe.
How many people.
My son has grown up with? Anywhere between, you know, six, seven, eight parental figures and most of those who have been with him his entire life. As women, we. We want to think that we can do it all, and even when it causes us pain, that we're expected to do it all. But we keep fueling ourselves with this illusion and fueling each other with this illusion. And because of it, children are suffering. We are suffering, and we're unable to.