Personally, I could have used less of my father in my childhood, but hey, most people find single motherhood tawdry, and sad, and not something worth celebrating. Not saying they're right, or anything, but that's just the feeling I get.
shareI felt pretty much the same way. Most of it is self inflicted and there is nothing to celebrate about being a Single Mom. Is like celebrating someone hitting the ground because they didn't bother to bring a parachute to the plane drop.
With that being said, people do need to know how hard it can be to be a single mother so perhaps they can avoid it altogether. Also, if you are a single mother you do need to know that you don't have to walk around in shame and that you can live a full life and there are people around you, in particular other single mothers, who can help you.
We also need to know there are several ways people become single mothers. some people get that way through divorce or having to adopt kids from a relative who for whatever reason can not take care of the children.
Having watched the movie I think it was a great concept but it was just poorly executed.
You are correct in just a little of it being self inflicted. Some of these films seem to always want to target men as the reason why the moms are in there situations. They seem to want to sweep under the rug that it is very difficult for husbands to support a family yet that part from the good ones whom will do anything to feed kids does not seem interesting to women and that sends the wrong message to young men. There is always two sides for break-up and most are told from the woman's point of view.
You would think that some film makers had great dads and want to tell there story.
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