I absolutely would not take part, simply because the editors will make it look like they are all fish-wife hollering slobs who "deserve" to be single because we are somehow second class citizens
I have got myself through university and am 1 year away from being a qualified teacher; I have done that off my own back and STILL people think I'm some sort of slut and below them because I'm on benefits (for a while) and live in a council house; I won't let anyone make me look like an idiot.
Sharing a house doesn't appeal either - too many women, too many hormones, too many people to tell me how to raise/not raise my son and that would do my head right in.
From here (sounds great - just great....)
?Nasty little breeders? no more?
Channel 4's Pram-face showed that single mums are now viewed as victims rather than villains. Is that really any better?
Channel 4?s Cutting Edge series last night examined a perennial modern-day folk devil: young working-class single mothers.
In Pram-face, documentary maker James Cohen followed the day-to-day lives of two 20-year-old single mums, Ala and Abby, over a six-month period. Ostensibly, the programme attempted to counter the relentlessly negative portrayal of single mums in contemporary culture. The documentary?s title, ?Pram-face?, is itself a reference to the derogatory slang coined by gossip webzine Popbitch to denote single-mum ?chavs?. It?s doubtful, however, whether this frankly dull documentary will do much to change perceptions.
Ala and Abby came across as self-assured and photogenic enough to dispel the stereotype of gormless Vicky Pollards put forward in Little Britain. And as they rather self-consciously and laboriously demonstrated, they don?t have horns and they do know how to change nappies. No doubt Cohen and the participants believed this would be a riposte to the anti-single mother lobby, but it only showed how far they themselves have come to be influenced by the negativity about these women.....
The main weakness was that it took media rants against single mothers at Pram-face value. To attempt to ?put the record straight? only gives credence to such saloon-bar prejudices. At different times over the past two decades, the bile projected against working-class single mothers has said more about the accusers than the accused. So in the Eighties and early Nineties, the social fragmentation fostered by the then Conservative government in the UK was routinely blamed on single mums? ?anti-family values?. For today?s New Labour politicians and liberal commentators, working-class single mothers constitute a ?health problem? because, we are told, they raise kids whose mental and physical health is apparently at risk.