3rd September 2012 ??|?? by Ashley
?In a season of ardent partisan clashing, Americans seem united in at least one shared idea: Single mothers are bad?. So begins Katie Roiphe?s essay on her experience as a single mother of two young children, both with different dads. She describes her household as ?messy, bohemian, warm? and argues that the idea of what a family ?should be? is more negative for children than living in families that are different than the traditional nuclear family. In response to common criticisms against single mothers, Roiphe suggests that, ?no family structure guarantees happiness or ensures misery?. She argues that being married doesn?t guarantee that children are going to have a good home life. According to Roiphe, suffering and ?screwed up? parenting happens in all kinds of families, including in the more traditional two parent, heterosexual family. She feels that what is most important is ?the kind of parent you are, not whom you sleep with?.
Read the full essay here:
In defense of single motherhood [The New York Times]
Source: http://myfertilitychoices.com/2012/09/in-support-of-single-motherhood-one-womans-story/
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