[softengine]

Ditto.

But what's a single mom to do but work? Bills have to be paid. Food must be put on the table, etc. Some of us have no choice.

[Neets]

The author is not finding fault with women working. Just pointing out that women who make their career objectives their number one priority, have their priorities mixed up.

[anniegetyourgun]

#17 - and folks need to come alongside single moms like you.

[wjcsux]

I, for one, admire you for doing the right thing to be certain your children have a good life. Children need BOTH parents. Guys that duck their family duties are truly scum! Being a dad has been the greatest joy I have ever had. Unfortunately, my youngest is a junior in High School, and will move on to College very soon. It will be different without a kid in the house.

[sweetliberty]

"what's a single mom to do but work? Bills have to be paid. Food must be put on the table, etc. Some of us have no choice."

I would suggest to you that it is these same feminazis we have to thank for our apparent lack of choices. Once the role of mother was considered to be the most important role a woman had. The feminists convinced the nation that women were being cheated by being sentenced to a life of mediocrity at home with their children, learning to live within their husbands' budgets. They called it "choice" but seems to me that the choice was the that of the feminists themselves rather than that of the average woman. Before we knew what hit us, womens' choices had been reduced to "what career" not " family vs. career." The consequences have been staggering. As a result,many of us have found ourselves in positions of having no choice, and raising children short of choices as well. Thankfully many men and women are finding the way back, but it will take time and commitment, and daily "little" choices that make baby steps toward restoring the natural order of things.

I am not suggesting womens' actual rights be "set back; only that marriage and family again be elevated to their rightful position of high esteem.

[~EagleNebula~]

But what's a single mom to do but work? Bills have to be paid. Food must be put on the table, etc. Some of us have no choice.

I understand! I have been there not too long ago!! Hang in there! I am proud of you for what you are doing, and how well you are doing it. There isn't enough of a support system out there for single parents of either gender.

Even some of us in a marriage have no choice. Not that we don't want to be feminine, it is just more difficult when you have to deal with working away from home, and then everything else on the homefront too. We aren't "Wonder Woman" though we wish we were! I know what you are talking about.

Who has time to shave her legs, and put on an elegant meal, and romance the socks off a man after working, taking care of the kids, the laundry, the cleaning, the meals, etc? Who has the energy? the time? There are days when you fall into bed late at night wanting to scream "calgon take me away" but can't even afford the luxury of time for that. ::sigh:: Oh for the days when life was simpler! (Nope! Don't wanna cart that bucket of water in from the pump down yonder! LOL)