Reply to What does "single Mom" mean?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "What does "single Mom" mean?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always thought of single moms as people who are completely on their own taking care of their kids, so the father is totally out of the picture (no child support, no joint custody, etc). [/quote]

Agree! I use this definition as well. Divorced mom are just that divorced moms who receive child support (and sometimes alimony). Divorced moms are not angle moms because they get a break and don't have the crippling poverty that sometimes comes along with single momhood.[/quote]

That doesn't make any sense.

I'm a single mom.  Never married, never divorced.  No one else is named on my kid's birth certificate.

I make a good middle class living for my kid and me.  No crippling poverty here.

Does that revoke my single mom card?

What about my single mom friend with the multi million dollar trust fund?  Does she lose her card?

I have friends who are divorced, but don't get enough from their ex to keep their head above water -- do they get the single mom card?

Single mom has nothing to do with your income.  It has nothing to do with how much your life sucks.  My life doesn't suck at all, but I still qualify.

Single mom = mom who is single (not married, not partnered) that is all.  [/quote]

Sure, what you say is correct. But the way society uses the phrase is not the literal meaning of it. People use the phrase as a shortcut to mean a subset of the single moms you give as examples.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics