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I completely agree. Although my son has not been a father to his daughter and I have custody of her, I will not speak badly about him. Just in the last week he acts like he wants to be a father for once, but who knows how long that will last. I have worn many hats as I am her mother, grandmother and father. It has not been easy, but we manage.

i know that song we do it because of love, our faith, and their absolute trust in us, their mom not to be the 1 who lets them down no child is a mistake that is correct maybe its our mistake in picking the wrong father but you can only ever have one mom! their caregiver, the cheerleader, the disiplinarian, the best frind you'll ever have! and p.s the giver of the best hugs EVER!!!!

I see this allot and all around me. I have two female single mother coworkers and I admire what they do for their children without the men. In the past I have also dated single mothers and could not believe the kind of men they deal with.

As a teenager sitting in a park one day, a park l lived very close to, I often saw a divorced couple meeting to exchange their little boy. At first it seemed like a normal exchange. One day, I saw them get into an argument and could not believe my eyes. They had the poor boy as a tug of war, one holding his feet and the other his arms. The poor boy was creaming and I looked into his eyes and my heart broke. Honestly, I felt like beating up the parents and as I watched I couldn't take it anymore and yelled-out, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!! It scared them and they stopped and drove away. This is something that I will never forget..and has helped me be the father that I am today.

I think it's assumed that women are mothers and nurturing by nature and raising kids should be a no-brainer. The truth is that its a tough job and not everyone is up to the task or does it well. Because these assumptions are made, the very human mistakes that single moms make are unfairly magnified.

With men, the perception is that any single dad involved with his child is a good dad. That's an equally damaging perception of single dads; the idea that a man is involved with his child's life should not be a given, but an assumption. There should not be anything extraordinary about a man totally engaging himself with and being responsible for his child. It's as if single dads should receive the Nobel Peace Prize for doing what they ought to be doing anyway.

The best way to counteract these negative paradigms is to start support parents equally, regardless of gender. We should help make all parents heroes, and they should want to be heroes to their children.

Charlies35. you make some very good points.

But the fact remains, from most of the people I know, and I am sure statistics will support me on this, is that the majority of single parents are women and they are doing most of the hard work and sacrifice in bringing up our next generation. A deadbeat dads out number the deadbeat moms by over 90%. But that's JMO.

Interesting words.

It’s a big challenge being a single Dad, too, although people tend to forget that many of them exist as well.

And you’re right it takes a lot of strength and resolve to get through for any single parent – that’s for sure.