Is it harder for a single mom to raise a boy or a single dad to raise a girl?

[Anonymous]

I've known of two single parents raising the opposite gender and trying their best.

Single mother with boy:
A family relative is a single mother of a 8 year-old boy. The father bailed out on her long ago and she has raised him on her own. She tried her best on teaching him morals, values and how to be a gentleman.

Single father with girl:
My neighbor's wife died in childbirth and left him with their baby girl. He had to learn to cook, clean a whole house, what to feed the baby and everything she knew. He tried his best and his daughter is now 12 years old.

Which parent do you think has it harder? A single mother trying her best to raise her son or a single father raising his daughter as best as he could?

Single mother raising a boy

Single father raising a girl

[josephinelcajon]

I chose the dad. A mother is a mother hen to all. A boy certainly needs a man but they can get along. A girl truly needs her mother especially when puberty hits.

[Asker]

Yes there isn't a single day that he doesn't miss his wife and wishes she was there to guide her through that and teach her many things in her own ways that he can't teach. Sometimes his sister (the girl's aunt) visits them and she acts of a mother figure to her.

[Anonymous]

Dont think single mom can raise boy into man effectively because she will imprint fantasy land garbage in him about relationships rather than reality most of the time

[Anonymous]

I think both are equally difficult, but the girl raised by a single father has a far better chance of becoming a healthy, happy, well adjusted woman than a boy raised by a single mother has of becoming a healthy, happy, well adjusted man.

[DWornock]

Mostly girls like to please their fathers and react positively to their praise. Mothers are over protective and that is harmful to boys.

[Stevefiveo]

I think it is equally both hard and I'm speaking as a single father that raised a daughter and a son.

[Jamie05rhs]

It's probably harder for a single mom to raise a boy. Since most of them tend to end up in jail.

[Anonymous]

It's difficult in either case, but the odds a boy raised by a single mother turning out to be a normal and well adjusted man are much lower.

[Anonymous]

Single dad kids satataitcllu do better than single mom kids. single moms are usually poor