[Tessarie]

Sadly, sometimes the fathers of children, insidiously become alcoholics, addicts, and we moms have to get them away so they do not grow up thinking this kind of narcissistic behavior is normal. Not all single moms planned it. The home, the family, the dream is sometimes not realized by all, no matter their intentions.

[Skywalk]

I understand. It’s not a judgment on ALL women who are single, as some are abusive or simply should never have asked the woman to get married.

That said, it’s a numbers game out there and that is a red flag.

And from my experience in Seattle, the single mothers I met were not like you.

Heck, I dated one and she ended up having another kid (not by me!) not that long afterwards. And she was SUPPOSED to have moved to Atlanta and entered JobCorps or something like that. Irresponsibility is what I saw in most of them.

But that generalized sentiment is not meant to be a reflection on the totality of single motherhood.