Heard some lady at the grocery store patting herself on the back, wishing herself happy Father's Day. It got me thinking about this epidemic of single motherhood and all the awesome fruit its bearing for our country. Ladies, we love ya, but you're not fathers. Period. If you were, we wouldn't have these army of children wandering thebstreets w drugs and guns in our cities. They blame the fathers for not being there causing this shit, but then claim themselves as fathers. Foolish.
Disclaimer: a father who was raised by a single mother.
These parents out there doing a terrible job of raising their kids should get absolutely no credit for either Mother's or Father's Day. Single or not.
But the single parents, male or female, should totally be allowed to celebrate both days if they want to.
Some people are thrown into their positions without choice, sometimes under tragic circumstances. Their lives suddenly become infinitely harder and if they want to celebrate the fact that they're doing everything in their power to be a good parent to their children, why not let them?
Of course it can never replace having both parents, but they're trying their hardest. At least the good ones are.
This is what foundations like Big Brother should've been helping with. But if I were a single mother, I wouldn't trust that shit if you paid me to.
Hell yeah! I wanted to say this. A single mother has to have the role of both even if she can never fulfill them both. Not that they chose it, but they have a kid to raise and now have to earn the extra income (or ALL the ince at once since many were housewives before and now have to earn liveable wages). They have to play every role, from disciplinarian, to dishing out all the advice, for daughters AND sons.
Single moms have no one to rely on for support the way 2 parent households do, of course they can never fill the void, but they damn well have to try.
Same as single fathers, which seems to be less common.
Exactly.
Just because a man isn't going to be very good at doing his young daughter's hair for school doesn't mean that he shouldn't step up and still at least attempt it if the mother isn't in the picture. All the better if he cares enough to watch tutorials on it for her.
Same for women that still try to play catch with their sons and teach them the more masculine side of things as best they can.