[longtermmemmory]

"And the reverse should be true too. Isn't it fascinating how single mothers (I am one,have been one for 11.5 years) are branded as raising someone else's mistakes. Yet the man whose mistake(s) she is raising can go out and find a new woman and not be branded in any fashion? "

the reverse is absolutly positivly true. Women should not want to date a man with kids from before because his frustrations will become her frustrations.


Respectfully, I believe you misunderstand. The mother is not branded as raising someone else's mistake, the new man in the single-mother's life is the one raising some other man's mistake.


I believe you will not see any non-custodial father having a cake walk from society. The issue here is why men will not commit. In all fairness who gets the short end of the stick in child custody cases is another thread entirely.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Oh well, let me introduce you to my exhusband.....and I was even told by a man I dated, who had a child with another woman, that no man should date me. I should only be concerned with being at home with my children. I asked if the same was true for him, that he should focus all of his energy on raising his child and the response was no, he needed a partner.