rent. Nine of these kids feel that the parent who has raised them has not done a better job at parenting than if both parents raised them. The children who were raised by their opposite-sex parent were nearly all in agreement that the parent who has raised them has done a better job than both parents could do. Six of those who grew up with the opposite-sex parent were male. One interesting response was that of question number two. Only five children believed that because they were raised in a single-parent family that they are at a greater risk of becoming troubled than their peers were. Sixteen of those surveyed believed that their life would be different if their other parent had raised them. Reasons such as financial differences, the level of discipline given by a parent, activities that one parent is involved in would influence the child. One reaction mentioned several times is, if the child had
             lived with his/her other parent they would have made poorer grades and bad choices. More than one-half of the surveys came back with a positive response to question number seven. Only three believed that living in a single-parent family has had a negative effect on their lives, and the remaining five found that it had both a positive and negative impact on influence on their lives. When asked who were their role models, the responses included mother as
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