the term "I'm a single Mom"?
I hear this term from women that have the fathers taking the children every week while paying god awful amounts of child support.
I hear this term from married women when their husbands go on a trip or leave for a day.
I hear this from single mothers who never actually have their children because their parents take them and don't charge them a dime to watch the kids.
It's almost like women wear this as a double-sided badge; one side is designed to evoke sympathy and 'things' from others and the other side is designed as a badge of honor.
I know what it's like raising children alone, because I've been doing it for the last 5 years, but the whole "I'm a single mom" thing is getting very old.
Okay, you're a parent that has no partner. Great, we get it. We all have responsibilities and life can be tough, but using this term to hold yourself up in some kind of wonderful light just doesn't cut it anymore.
And maybe I sound like I'm bitter, and that's because I am slightly bitter. When I go to the park with my kids, and I have no woman around, I get some of the most hateful looks from all these "single moms" out there.
I've even had these women grab their children and leave the park while giving me these 'go-to-hell' looks.
I mean, is being a man at a park with his two children that scary of a thing for women? I get that there are pervs that slink around, but I think the reaction I get being a single parent is overkill to the extreme.
And the double-standard of being a single mother and a single father is ludicrous, and quite frankly, disgusting.
We're just parents. Being single isn't the greatest thing for our children (or so the experts tell us), but we are parents. Stop using the 'single' crap to get sympathy or use it as a way to treat others like crap or diminish the struggles of those around you.
Okay, my rant is now over. :)
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