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[quote=Anonymous]It's a continuum.  I'm a single mom in most senses of the word.  I am unpartnered, and was never married to my daughter's dad.  I'm definitely less financially well-off than I would be if married, because we have two households.  I am the primary parent, but he does help me co-parent, and he does pay support.  He deploys often for months at a time and I'm the 100% solo parent, but with financial support.  I have no local family.

i also have friends who had babies 100% on their own, and friends who had children with men who have since disappeared.  They are further down the "single mom" continuum than I am, but we are still single moms.  Some of my single mom friends have more money than I do, or local family help and in that way, they do have it easier.  But my daughter has a dad, so we have it easier in that sense.

It's not a competition.

I get annoyed when married moms call themselves single moms because they are not.  But I will sympathize when they feel like a single mom in some ways because their husband is deployed or always traveling or whatever.  We can relate to being the default parent.[/quote]

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