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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you people seriously fighting over whether divorced parents with an ex who makes some financial and time commitment to a child deserve to be called single parents? That is just sad.

This and I'm not a divorced, widowed and I didn't have a child out of wedlock. Generally, those people have the same types of issues. My husband is gone for work about 21 days a month...as in across the country, for years and years like this. I have these same issues.

Does "I have these same issues" mean you have the same issues as the divorced be widowed parents because your husband travels for 21 days? FFS.[/quote]

You've experienced some of the same issues, but you haven't experienced many of the issues that divorced parents or single parents do - i.e., supporting your kids on a single income, or a single income supplemented by relatively modest payments from someone also supporting another household.  [/quote]

But then you need to differentiate between single parents who are poorer and single parents who are wealthier.  Or what if you're a single parent who was poor but then inherited money?  I haven't mentioned money at all.  I guess the question is this:  If your kid is on stage and looks in the audience and sees her mom isn't there, does her heart hurt less if it is because:

--Her mom is widowed, poor and has to work and can't be there because she has to make ends meet?

--Her dad is 2000 miles away and her mom is unexpectedly home with her sick brother who no one else can watch?

--Her mom is divorced, makes money but works in the city and can't make it back to the suburbs for a 20 minute play?

I'm suspecting the kid's heart hurts.  Who is talking about the financial aspect...and no, I haven't said anything about my finances so I could have or I could not have a lot.  Doesn't matter - the issue is that I absolutely do have some of the same issues as a single parent.  I can't be in two places at once and I can't be two people at once.  My kids suffer as a result.  You all know plenty of times your spouse takes over when you're sick or have two activities, etc.  That's all I'm saying.  No, I'm NOT a single parent but in many ways I have the life of one as it relates to my kids being raised 3/4 of the time.  If he was in the military, how could you say any differently?[/quote]

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