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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has OP posted re why it matters to her? I'm curious if it's because there are tons of people who claim single parent status when they complain about workload or want credit (e.g. "I have to do dinner, bath, and bed for both kids all by myself during the week because my husband travels. I'm basically a single parent.")

I used a sperm donor. I'm not married. (Although I am divorced -- we married and divorced long before I had kids.) I am a single mom. There are LOTS of other ways to be a single mom in my mind but for heaven's sake, your husband traveling is not one of them.[/quote]

I would assume it matters to her because being a widow with a young child is far, far harder than a divorced mother with an ex-husband who provides child support and part-time care of the child.  You are a single mother, too, PP - just like OP (in my opinion).  [/quote]

It's not always harder.  The entire world is sympathetic to the widow. There are meal trains and sympathy and the dead spouse is typically sainted in the eyes of everyone. The entire world looks down on single moms. Often single moms have to hunt down deadbeat dads or get restraining orders for ex's or they fight you or nickel and dime you and it's never ending. Again, enough with the misery Olympics.  Raising a child on your own, no matter how you got there, can be daunting. [/quote]

That is my point!  If you are a mother trying to run down a deadbeat dad who gets no co-parenting help from him, you are a single mother.  If you are a widow, you are a single mother.  If your child's father deserved you, you are a single mother. If you get no help from the child's father of any kind you are a single mother.  HOWEVER, if you are a divorced woman whose ex gives you ample financial support and co-parents his children with visitation you are not a single mother so stop calling yourself that and stop whining!!!  And never call yourself a single mother because your husband works too much!  [/quote]

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