I don't understand the current trend to decide to be a single mom like the celebs. It is a very hard life. Finacially it is always been a struggle I had my first daughter at 19 after I just graduated highschool. I t makes it much easier to be married and have a supportive spouse to share in the duties and someone to share all the cute moments of your kids with. I also don't think daycare is very good for kids and htis is sometimes the only way single parents cand make money. I am not bashing single parents as I am one myslef but just saying why would anyone knowing want o deny a child a father purposely. Fathers are so important. I am now engaged and my fiance is so grrat with my daughters. I have never known what it was like for them to have a father and wow does it make a huge difference in their lives.

Hello Loving Attachment.

I am a firm beleiver in the fact that a single mom cannot teach her son how to be a man. :rolleyes: And a single dad cannot teach his daughter to be a woman. :)36

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Just my opinion. Not every father deserves to be one. My kids would have been better off without theirs. When my daughter was in Jr. High she told everyone that I was artificially insinuated and she still calls him the sperm donor. And as for myself, it was a hard struggle but I have accomplished more and have a lot more now without him (and I did it all myself). Yes they do need both parents, but that's not always possible. I was lucky that my kids had both sets of grandparents and an Uncle they loved and watched over them. Their Uncle would take them places and go to their school functions and they had two sets of grandparents to show them what marriage can be like. I have been with the same man for 14 years (not in the same house) and he loves them like they were his own and tried to be a father figure to them. I chose to be a single parent because that was what was best for me and the kids and I don't regret it. :)13

Like I said, this is just my opinion mainly because I had a bad marriage and I still see him hurting my kids and the unkept promises he makes to them. :)11