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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP. I feel the same way when folks go on about "stable, two parent families."

The circumstances under which I became a single parent are stupid and chiched, but had nothing to do with bad decisions, or lack of education, or getting married too young. It wasn't even due to choosing the wrong partner, except insofar as people change.

I really wish I could have given my kids the stable two parent family that everyone talks about, but the fact that circumstances beyond my control made that impossible? It doesn't make my kids any less amazing, or worse friends and classmates. [/quote]

People can be rude and insensitive and judgmental, but people can also be speaking in generalities that don’t apply to any one person/family.  I think it is different for a kid to grow up in a place where single parents are the norm, than where two parent families are the norm, just like it is different for a kid to grow up where intergenerational families sharing a home is the norm.  But preferring one norm over another doesn’t necessarily require thinking those that don’t fit the norm are lesser or a bad influence or cause any harm to anyone.  [/quote]

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