Hyerdahl3 wrote:
> >Subject: Re: The Slattern Single Mother
> >From: knoxy knoxy{at}post.com
> >Date: 1/26/2005 12:51 AM Pacific Standard Time
> >Message-id: 
> >
> >In article ,
> >gf010w5035{at}blueyonder.co.uk says...
> >> http://batr.org/view/021403.html
> >>
> >I tried to read all this crap, but it almost made me >fall asleep.
Why not cut
> it short and just say that all >single mothers are evil and they're
the reason
> for >everything bad that's happening in the world?

I personally wouldn't go that far.  I was raised by a divorced/single
mother, and I know how difficult it can be.  She wasn't single by
choice, but because my father abandoned the family.

Now, having said that, I can also say that single women as a group are
not exactly doing a bang-up job raising their kids, especially boys.
There's a whole host of issues that are found in boys raised by single
women.  However, I don't attach blame to just the women.  I think that
those men who abandon their families are at fault in those cases.  In
other instances, the women effectively bar the fathers from the lives
of the children out of vindictiveness, spite, whatever.  And then there
are those cases where both mother and father are too selfish or
self-absorbed to see past their own issues with each other and
prioritize the needs of the children.

>
> That was pretty much what was being said.  Some simply have a vested
interest
> in blaming the mother who stays rather than the father who abandons.

You surely are a simplistic creature when it comes to making sure that
no woman ever carries any responsibility for any action, aren't you?



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