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I understand and agree mostly.

I know that people do not make that distinction when you are single with a child. They don’t take time to understand what happened, they just turned their nose up at me.

No one helped us out but I didn’t complain for the government to bail me out either. I just worked 2-3 jobs to make ends meet.

I met my husband at a singles church group that had quite a few single moms and dads. It was the first time I felt accepted at any of the dozens of churches I had been to before. And it wasn’t a “seeker-friendly” church, just one that believed in second chances 😊

My church runs a parenting center. You are a parent and need help come in and we will try to help you. There are men and women trying to raise their kids on their own that need help. There are married couples that need help. There are elderly parents that need help. Many of them are in situations that are just because life decided to hit them with a bat. But the majority are there because they repeatedly make poor decisions.

I wish that just fifty percent of the ones who create their own problems would smarten up because we are stretched thin. And I don't just mean financially. Yeah we know you are lonely but picking up someone in a bar and bringing them home, letting them stay and then discovering that they smacked your kid after you left for work and they woke up hung over? Ay Caramba! We will listen but the desire to present those people with a clue book that reads "Do not bring your hookups to where your children sleep" is almost overwhelming.