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Solo Mother

Archive for the ‘blame’ Category

December 10th, 2006

Who you gonna blame? Single mothers… or absent fathers?

When I first began to write Solomother, oh these two months ago, I touched on the fact that there’s more than one way to become a single mother: divorce isn’t the only way. More and more women are choosing to be single mothers, through known or unknown donors. But the old fashioned way still works… […]

By christina -- 2 comments

December 7th, 2006

Do children from ‘broken homes’ HAVE to be in such trouble?

  I don’t get it, either. The statistics are undeniable. But why?
Why are kids from single parent families more likely to get or be in trouble? My marriage broke up because we finally realized that the dynamic, the relationship amongst the three of us, was damaging all of us. We split up and committed to […]

By christina -- 0 comments

December 4th, 2006

Divorce parties make fun of a difficult transition.

I wonder what my cake topper would look like? The little groom doll would probably be at the top of the cake, looking slim and dashing and coiffed, and the little bride doll would be somewhere down near the bottom of the tiers with a baby and a computer and a blow up doll and a […]

By christina -- 4 comments

November 18th, 2006

But then again, my separation could be worse…

Google kindly fills my single mother inbox with doozies about separation, divorce, and custody on a regular basis. Tonight, it shared this little gem with me: A Nasty Divorce Battle and A Nosy Husband Lead to Bomb Scare…  I thought I’d pass it on to you:
A small black object that was found attached to the bottom of a woman’s […]

By christina -- 0 comments

October 24th, 2006

Some thoughts on Child Support (non)Payments

Sometimes, the only thing standing between a divided family and poverty is… child support. If a parent decides to withhold that money, for whatever reason, he or she is putting the child in jeaopardy. And since I’m a single mother, I’m going to only write about it from the ex-husband not paying […]

By christina -- 5 comments

October 12th, 2006

you’ve both got it rough.

I don’t get a break. There is no one to whom I can pass the buck. I am end-all be-all in my son’s life. There is no father to trade off with. It’s hard. I have to console my son when he’s sad his father isn’t with us. I have to put up pictures of my […]

By christina -- 9 comments

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