I never thought much about single Moms. When I did think about them, I felt sorry for them. It's hard to imagine how tough it must be raising children and working a full-time job - with no help from a partner.
Ann Coulter, however, has thought a lot about single mothers. The notorious right-wing columnist devotes an entire chapter to them in her book Guilty : liberal "victims" and their assault on America.
Basically she says that single moms are the parasites of society. Why? Because their children populate our jails and welfare rolls. The worst part of it is, single moms didn't have to be single moms. They irresponsibly had children. They should have put them up for adoption.
Coulter says that our society worships single mothers. The media says how tough things are for single mothers, various celebrities worship single mothers as their heroes, and they receive lots of assistance from taxes and not for profit organizations.
Instead, she says, they shouldn't get any help. That would discourage other women from becoming single mothers, and slowly turn society around (because fewer children grow up and be ruined in these homes).
While her reasoning seems sound, she's an obnoxious writer. She comes off as cold, callous and disrespectful. She needs a punch in the mouth.
I have a feeling that if I told her this she'd laugh and say, "Of course I'm disrespectful of single mothers. They're all slime."
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Note: She doesn't blame widowers or potential single moms who put up their kids for adoptions.
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