But my mother always had the help of people around her who helped me grow up. I felt like the saying that it takes a village to raise a child really applied to my life. The reason is if my mom couldn't teach me something or come to my game, so her coworkers would remember that in high school it was so hard for her to come to my basketball games that people from her job would go and text her and tell her how I was doing in the game. Coming from this type of family and seeing how difficult it was for my mother without another parent in the house, I will try not to continue the cycle of not being there for my children and their mother because I feel my mother would be angry if not I'm there for my kids. In some single parent families sex talk can be okay and some can be very awkward especially coming from my mom. When he talked to me about sex it wasn't awkward at all because he waited until I reached a certain age to really delve into sex. When I was nine I remember my mother saying when you get older make sure you wear a condom. He told me what it was for and when is the right time to do it and how I should proceed when that time comes. He basically told me the basics of what to do