How do you view single mothers?

People doing a hard job alone

Sad to say.....cause I LOVE kids but single moms with kids and divorced moms with kids are hell to date. Its OK for the guy to feed the kids and baby sit them and spend money on them and spoil thjem.....but if the guy EVER says "NO"..........or "STOP THAT." or "TIME OUT" ...we're told in a heartbeat we're not the kid's dad and so it's not our place to teach them values or set guard rails.for what is right and wrong. Its like we're OK to be used...............but not good enough ever to be considered a "dad". The real dad never stayed around but the new one is never good enough. Go figure. So as much as I might like to date a mom with kids.............usually now I pass.

Their relationship status or how they live is none of my business. In other words, I view them as any other random stranger.

It's challenge.. I 've been a widowed single mom.

Was engaged to a single mother. It was excruciating because, she cheated, bad tempered, she possessed all the toxic traits she got from her abusive exes. It was her defense mechanism. It's like u could understand the things that she did, it was her trauma.. but, you were dying slowly.. so, my thoughts would be, the same as any other woman above 35. Try to understand her trauma, n see if you could deal with her unhealed wounds. Put a clear boundary because if not you'll lose yourself.

As a person

here is where i get hated... it depends on the situation. if she is a widow or a victim of SA my heart goes out to her. if she got pregnant because she was drunk or high or if she open her legs for some guy she didn't really know then my heart goes out to the child. it is because of her he or she will grow up without a father

Its not the kind of character i am. To view a single mother , she has to be with her children in order to make the call on her character...

Does that make sence?

Just with my eyes.

Due to my life up until this point I'm going to pass on viewing single mother's anymore. This coming from a recently single father.

I know I can get the mother to love how I am with the kids, i only tolerated my marriage for this long because we are both good with our kids. If you can't view me for how you and I are together I'm not interested in how we function as a family.

I believe single mother's are generally good people who deserve some support. My future ex wife is a toxic negative manipulative person overall. She is a good parent however.

Everyone who is single is single for a reason. Ask their previous partners and you'd probably find more out

It's only how they give to their children how I will care, and I can't imagine being a single parent, so my appreciation of all what they must do.

I usually put single mothers up on a pedestal, just high enough that we can see she's not wearing panties under her skirt.

Depends on their situation and how they became single moms .

It depends on the person.

I wrote different things and deleted them. That part is the truth

It seems to be a thing - people make choices. I won't judge them.

I would never date a single mother.

Respect, most of the time, but also realising that not all single mothers make great mothers and that not all single fathers make great fathers either.

Being a single mother is just one aspect of a person as a whole. I'm sure it's a pretty significant challenge.

I view them as people, each one different.

I think that is a tough job.

Hard worker

My best friend is a single mother, and an awesome one. She decided in her thirties that she wanted a child and time was getting short, she didn’t see anyone that she wanted to marry, so she and the man she was dating at the time had a son. She had primary custody but the father had full visitation and they co-parented.

Now the son is 32, has completed his M.A. and is a professor at the Art College in their city.

Another friend who ended up raising her son mostly alone when her husband bailed, raising a man who is now a prominent attorney here, with a wife and children of his own.

I think it's sad raising your child absent the father for whatever reason. I know that loneliness and it sucks