Being a single mum should not be acceptable..

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How can a person running to be Mayor of London seriously do so with views like this?!

metro.co.uk/2018/10/08/single-mums-should-not-be-acceptable-says-tory-mayor-of-london-candidate-8017333/

Same! spent my entire adult life with my ex husband who then turned abusive and cheated several times and then left us and left me to pay for everything. Had to end my maternity leave early to pay for everything.

I don’t think many people actually plan on being a single parent unless it’s because they want to have a baby via sperm donor or something like that.

I wish my ex hadnt turned horrible and violent but it was out of my control.

The stigma is terrible, I don’t tell people I am now a single mum, but I do get odd looks sometimes at theme parks and places like that and at church. I think I’m the only single parent in my church and It’s obvious as everyone else is there with their husbands/partners.

I don’t want to say I blame all men but so many men just abandon their children these days 😕 and society doesn’t judge them when we should

My ex is also a compulsive liar and narcissist so I didn’t realise until a few years in what he was capable of because he was so nice at the start...

I could never have imagined he wouldn’t care about his own children. But he doesn’t. He Doesn’t even get them birthday presents when he earns more than I do.

Well they wouldn't be single if the Dads stepped up to their responsibilities would they?

He gonna comment on that? No, didn't think so.

It’s so unfair. All the crap dad’s who abandon their children.... why don’t their mates and their families say shame on you to them?

Why is it just accepted when people should tell them it’s wrong.

They should see their kids and support them instead of spending weekends in the pub.

Why do single mothers still have to deal with the stigma when most of us didn’t plan it.

If any of you have a mate or family member who is a crap dad, you should tell them it is wrong to behave the way they are

The thing is, it's not necessarily single mothers that are the problem. It is the deadbeat fathers who don't and won't contribute to the emotional, mental, physical and financial toil of raising the children they co-created. In abandoning their responsibilities these fathers leave women to look for help and support through other methods - one such method is the state.

There aren't hordes of young women getting knocked up in the back of ford fiestas in the hope of landing themselves a council house. If you believe that then you've well and truly been bought by the propaganda.

Leslie good luck to her! I was a young single mum, living in one bedroom in a shared house, on the council waiting list for over 2 years and didn’t even get an offer to so much as look at a place in that time. Luckily then went on to meet my current partner and eventually moved in with him.

Shaun Bailey............a graduate from the Peter Lilley University of Misogyny and Single Mother Bashing.

The candidate was raised by a single mother as his father wasn’t around

@continuallychargingmyphone there is some truth in that. Doesn't mean you end up being a rubbish parent by any stretch though.

The route to independence for a huge portion of young people now is non existent.

ivykaty and what did he learn from that? To blame women. Completely missing the point. He says he wants women to not put up with shit from men - does he not see that by ending our relationships and becoming single mums, we are doing exactly that? If he really cares, he should be sending out a message to men that they need to step up - but he doesn't.