[traditional1]

"you are calling a woman who is divorced, an out of wedlock mother"

One more time, I'm going to try to explain.

An "un-wed" mother, in today's speak is a "single mother". The DIVORCEE in the article was referred to by THAT writer as a "single mother".

The actual woman in the article was lumped-in with the politically-correct term "single mother", which was coined to provide safe-haven/acceptance for UNWED MOTHERS, and is mis-applied in the article to a divorcee.

My point, again, is that an un-wed mother is more accurately the description of an un-married woman who has had a child by father or fathers unknown, and has been provided stigmatization-insurance by application of the term "single mother".

the end

[TWfromTEXAS]

Dear end,

Then you should have made that point in your now discredited post.

Thank you this stimulating exchange.

[Stone Mountain]

The actual woman in the article was lumped-in with the politically-correct term "single mother", which was coined to provide safe-haven/acceptance for UNWED MOTHERS, and is mis-applied in the article to a divorcee. My point, again, is that an un-wed mother is more accurately the description of an un-married woman who has had a child by father or fathers unknown, and has been provided stigmatization-insurance by application of the term "single mother".

I still don't get your point. She was referred to as a single mother in the article. That is completely accurate. You're saying the article should have referred to her as a divorcee bringing up children alone? Like divorce doesn't have a stigma too? It's hard for me to understand what the problem with referring to this person as a single mother is.

Or is your beef not with this article, but the way people refer to single mothers who didn't attain that status in a socially acceptable way for you?