Imran Khan Speaks About Co-Parenting and Struggles After Separation

Bollywood actor Imran Khan recently spoke openly about the challenges of single parenting and how he co-parents his daughter Imara with his former wife Avantika Malik.

According to him that a few mothers of Imara’s friends are uncomfortable with playdates at his home, mainly because there is no woman in his household.

Recently, Imran appeared on Parineeti Chopra’s show Mom Talks and he talked about the struggles and responsibilities that come with being a single parent.

He shared that the experience can feel quite heavy in daily life. Imran Khan, who is co-parenting his daughter with ex-wife Avantika Malik, and has shared that his daughter spends around three to four days a week at his home.

During the chat show Imran shared that when his daughter stays with him organising playdates with her friends and coordinating with their parents can get kinda challenging you know it’s not always easy.

He noted that these small schedules and back-and-forth with people can occasionally feel somewhat inconvenient.

Here is word what Imaran exactly said  “I would try to make plans. And Imara would ask me, ‘Can you ask this friend if they can come over to play?’ So I would find the number and message one mom: ‘Can so-and-so come over to play?’ And they would say, ‘Sorry, not today.’ Next week again: ‘Hi, can we do it?’, they are like, ‘No, not today’. So I started to notice that some moms were maybe not so comfortable sending their child, particularly if it’s a girl, to a house where a single man is living. I’m a man and I’m the father, but since I’m divorced now, there is no woman at home.”

The actor said he could relate to their concerns too, adding, “So, look, we also live in a world where there are enough problematic men. You can kind of understand where this thinking comes from. It was heartbreaking because week after week I had to tell my daughter, ‘Sorry, your friend can’t come’.”

According to Imran Khan, mothers usually support fellow single mothers, but “a single father doesn’t have that, which is also part of the unfortunate nature of male relationships”. He mentioned that there is a restrictive version of manhood that is taught to all men, which is “men are strong, men are not like that. So within that, some of these more vulnerable parts of yourself maybe don’t get addressed, where a woman will have two or three girlfriends who respond emotionally and support you there.”