The Hate On Single Moms Is Getting Unreal
It wasn’t this bad 10 years ago. What gives?
You know, there are a lot of issues our society tends to have — and one of them deals with the way we treat moms. Married or single, society treats moms like third-class citizens.
The moment the baby comes, women lose their identities. Society expects them to cater to a child’s every need, want, and whim. And if the kid doesn’t behave? People blame the mom, never the dad.
Moms get a lot of hate. They always have. However, there seems to be a growing, seething hate toward single moms that is both alarming and dangerous. In my feed, it’s reaching a fever pitch.
I need to talk about it.
It’s no secret that single moms come with a lot of stigma.
Single moms always had a stigma around them — at least for as long as I’ve been alive. The most common ones I heard were that they slept around, that they were strippers, or that they were somehow less responsible than married moms.
The idea of being a single mom was regularly equated with failure. At the very least, single moms are painted as women who “made a mistake,” or are “down on their luck.”
