Single Mom Dresses Up As Dad To Take Her Son To School's 'Donuts With Dad' Breakfast
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On 7th September 2016
A single parent is an uncoupled individual who shoulders most or all of the day-to-day responsibilities for raising a child or children. A mother is more often the primary caregiver in a single-parent family structure that has arisen due to death of the partner, divorce or unplanned pregnancy.
Historically, death of a partner was a major cause of single parenting.[1] Single parenting can also result from the breakup or divorce of coupled parents. Custody battles, awarded by the court or rationalized in other terms, determine who the child will spend majority of their time with. In western society in general, following the separation of a heterosexual couple, a child is placed with the primary caregiver, usually the mother, while the secondary caregiver is usually the father.,[2] though the reverse does happen and joint custody is on the rise.
Fathers have been the less common primary caregiver in the recent past, presumably due to the father working most of the day resulting in less bonding with the children, or possibly a young child needing to still nurse, or if childcare was necessary while the father works, the mother would be seen to be better suited while fathers works. This scenario has shifted in recent years, as many fathers are taking an active parental role as a stay-at-home dad as more mothers are in the workforce and being the sole provider to the family, resulting in fathers bonding and connecting more to their children.
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Life as a single parent is difficult, especially in this day and age. Aside from the limitation of having only one mind and body to take on all parental duties, many are often worried that their child may grow up with some deficiency due to a mother or father figure not being present in their life. An unfounded fear, but a fear nonetheless.
Single parents often find themselves playing both roles, and Yevette Vasquez of Texas took that to heart when dropping her son off to school on September 1st
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She noticed that there were an unusual number of cars in the school parking lot that morning, and her son, Elijah, eventually told her that it was packed because of the Donuts with Dad breakfast event they were holding that morning.
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With Elijah's father out of their lives, Yevette came up with a plan on the spot so her son wouldn't miss out on the event. They turned around and headed home, where she changed into a plaid shirt, Rangers baseball cap, chain, mustache, and she topped it all off with a spritz of cologne.
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On Facebook, she explained the reasoning behind the move, stating that she knew it was difficult for her son to see other children with their fathers there while he didn't have one. She shared several pictures of them together on the post, and continued, "At least I can do whatever it takes to put a smile on that face."
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Yevette told Fox 4 that she was very nervous when she walked into the school dressed as a man, but she's glad she did. She has received an overwhelming amount of support online and was thanked by many other single parents nationwide that heard what she did for her son.
