Your article was right on the money! It’s about time somebody addressed the issue of lack of man doing HIS job!
I was once that single mother, carrying a burden that wasn’t mine alone, but was dumped on me, along with having to try and provide, make ends meet, and be everything a child desires in a mom. I failed in many ways, and succeeded in others. But no matter what, it was overwhelming for all of us.
I wasn’t one who had multiple boyfriends with kids from each. I was a married woman, and all of my children were the offspring of my husband and I. I expected my husband to do his part, but he saw his part of being king of the house as having plenty of drink, a harem, and a fist in my face whenever the mood struck. A year after leaving him, he was shot and killed during the commission of trying to injure somebody else. He was killed by a gun toting woman.
Sometimes justice happens.
The only problem I had with your article was lack of paragraph breaks which made it difficult to read, on screen.
I’m glad you gave the lady a tool she could use, and I hope she uses it. She can use all the help she can get, and so does her child. Chances are, she loves the child very much and in her own warped way, is trying to teach him about what he should become. But she doesn’t know, that the teaching happens at home so that when you take them out the door, it’s habit to behave in a certain manner.
There’s a LOT of pain out there in that world.
Yes, there is a lot of pain for sure. Patience and allowing those little resentments to pass is really the key to life. But it is harder when we are little, so I wrote that to be helpful, especially to the children of angry parents and to single moms.