Needs & Myth of Doomed Kids

In Thomas Sowell’s essay “Needs” he basically argues that most think they need things when in reality they just want them. He says we can live without needs so instead of being needs they become something we want. In Depaulo’s essay “Myth of Doom Kids” she says that children do not NEED both parents to become well adjusted adults. These two can compare because both believe that people don’t need things. They just wanted them. Depaulo’s idea is basically that kids do not need to have two parents in the household to be good adults. Some kids might want them, but it isn’t necessary. This is where Thomas Sowell’s essay comes in. They both seem to believe that just because you think you need it doesn’t mean you can’t live without it. Sometimes you have no choice, like some children have no choice, but they can just be as good off as kids with both parents if they apply themselves correctly.
I agree with this. I don’t think children need two parents to be well off adults. I think it’s just something that they want more than something that they need. Most children with only a mom or dad act out because of this “want”. They seem to believe that they can’t live without that need, so they act out because they feel they have no choice. They feel hopeless. I know this I myself went through the same thing. As a young child my dad left us, so I felt like it was my fault. I felt that I couldn’t be normal like other kids so I too acted out. After about a year or rebelling my little sister was born and it changed me. Her father left too, and I didn’t want her to come out wrong like I was doing. I don’t think kids need both parents, because I became a well off young lady without my father. Then again, I also know children who didn’t change. I know kids who live without their dad and rebel, especially when it’s a young man living with only his mother. He feels like he needs to be the man of the house and support his mom so he goes and does illegal things and actually believes he has to do it. He believes his mom needs him, not the other way around. So, basically kids do not NEED both parents to be well off adults. I think it’s more of a want, than a need. They can be just as good without both parents.