| The plight of single fathers..... Posted: 7/14/2007 1:26:50 PM | juliet, your message is misguided. Your family treated you differently, and it impacted you. Ouch, it hurt... You still had (and exercised) the right to be a parent and to parent your child.
Imagine if the courts, the police, the government agencies treated you differently. Imagine if you were accused by an irate ex and you were treated differently. Imagine if you were denied the right to be parent and the ability to parent your child. Try and imagine.
I don't have to. It happened multiple times to me. I've lost everything and only through family support and financial assistance, (in the tens of thousands of dollars) I am able to parent my child. The facts were self-evident, the plight is of TRUTH - not man or woman. The truth is that men are not treated equally or fairly in respect to parenting. Between you and your children's father - you win in the parenting venue. Period. If that is what's most important, then men have it - by far - worse. Comparing situations when the 'plight' is ability to date because of babysitting trivializes a serious topic where parents are denied access to their own children in favor of sex bias. On equal footing - you would be a single parent with custody, your brother would not. Imagine what many men need not imagine - they live it. | |
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