Single motherhood is great cries the single mother
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It's not just that, either.
Think about just the time. Every study shows that school success is based on parental involvement, it's a higher predicter than sex, race, or wealth. If you're a single parent, supporting your kids, where does your time go? Not to helping with homework or volunteering at the school.
Further, you can't do anything without your kids, especially when they're young. Taking small children to the grocery store doubles the time it takes, at least.
I'm a single Dad, and it's completely obvious that having two parents would be better, even though my ex was insane and I, personally, don't miss her, particularily in terms of material support.
But you know who misses her? The kids. Even though she sees them every week, they still miss her and ask why she doesn't live here.
This is just a rich (((white))) woman trying to justify her poor life choices and the damage they've done to her children.
No arguments from me. Not sure if you ever heard of him but Walter Williams (conservative thinker who died in 2020) said that you can talk all you want about raising school funding but if there is nobody there to make sure the child has something to eat, doesn’t watch too much tv, does his/her homework, then nothing will improve
Powerleveling a bit but I was raised by a single mother. She did her best, and thankfully she always tried to steer me towards male-oriented hobbies and groups (I was a boy scout for my entire childhood and good chunk of adolescence, later I got involved with a bunch of military reenactors, I went to a railway model club, etc.) so I'd have some male role models in my life. I'm grateful to her for that.
But still, there are things, often subtle, that a single mom just can't provide. Things like self-discipline. She was always very lenient with me, and I loved it at the time, I could do basically whatever I wanted (at the same time I think I was always pretty reasonable, I never got into any serious trouble), but it took my until I was maybe 30 to realize that it's not a great way to raise a kid. I'm doing well for myself, but I'm kind of a faggot when it comes to determination and willpower.
She also had me fairly late, at 36, and she was fat her whole life - which caught up with her later and she passed away when I was 30, at the age of 66. Nearly all of my friends have living parents and often even grandparents; if I have kids at any point, they'll never even know grandma Foul.