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Wonderful campaign, very proud of all it stands for x
im a single mum of two the youngest being 3 i work and have a mortgage and damn proud of myself , its a struggle and it doesnt help when you are constantly being criticised by the system we dont choose to be single mums, I would love to ask David Cameron one question `if you were a single parent on a budget would you cope?` The limited funds, no family support because they live faraway, kids screaming / ill /hungry , we are not fortunate enough to have regular seasonal holidays and we are still the baddies how does that work i would love to know. Your kids are happy how about mine ???????????
This is a great idea. We are single parent family and we are very far from the broken family some would like to believe we are. My daughter is simply wonderful, creative, funny, beautiful and extremely intelligent. We have a great life which could not be improved with a father figure. We have a very big social life, do lots and lots of activties and we have enough of everything we need materially due to hard work. My grandmother was also a single mum and she is my absolute role model. She had three children, a fantastic career and everyone who met her thought she was the nicest, kindest and most wonderful person.
Hi David Cameron,
I bet I don’t fit your stereotype of a typical single mum; I am privately educated, I have a degree and PGCE and I am 33 years old. I am have just finsihed working part time and I am due to start a full time job as a tutor in a secondary school next week. I am thrilled to be working and thrilled to have a beautiful daughter.
I would love to be in a stable relationship but it just hasn’t worked out for me as my daughter’s father lost interest when I became pregnant. (I was being careful but contraception failed and I don’t believe in abortion) But I am bloody proud to be single.
Single parents are scapegoated because we are a threat to the patriarchal notion that women must have a man in order to function. That’s rubbish. I would like a decent man but I am not goiing to be owned, dominated an dcontrolled by one and until Mr Right turns up I am going to continue to be proud of the difficult job I’m doing.
As a father David, you know how tough it is to bring up children. Now imagine doing that on your own, broken hearted because your partner has left and scapegoated by the media. Exactly. Many of the yobs in the riots were from middle class 2 parent familes.
Katherine
Great campaign, about time! Living in a country that apparently is a democracy – it’s infuriating the blatant pressure out in society to live in the 2.4 perfect world. I have lived as a single parent for ten years, my children are confident, happy, sociable, intelligent children. Nobody has blamed me for the fact my daughter was one of a handful to be fast tracked at school. No one has blamed me for the fact my son is one of the most popular boys of his year. I don’t bet any ‘blame’ for that!! As someone who grew up with two unhappy parents I know it’s certainly not about numbers, it’s common sense as we know it – love, positive role models, kindness and guidance.
too right, stop blaming everyone david cameron, you have no idea how most ppl live so stop cutting everything.
it’s about time real ppl ran the country, not millionaires.
Am a 3rd generation single parent now aged 38 with a DD aged 3. I work full time, I am educated to post graduate level, I own my own home. My child is so far well rounded and happy. I do not scrounge off the state. I pay taxes and alwyas have done as did my mother and her mother before her. grandmother was abandoned by her husband in the 1950′s to raise four children, my mother was widowed, I left an uninterested partner who was aheavy drinker.
We have neve been involve in riots, theft, crime…. please don’t tar us with the same brush. ]Only thing we are guilty of is having bad luck or bad taste in partners!
L
I read that Tanya Gold nodding and saying yes yes as well. The story I’d like to give David Cameron is that partly because I felt social pressure to settle down I ended up with the wrong man. He financially, verbally, emotionally and eventually physically abused me as well. My eldest had regressed to wetting her knickers again at this stage. The children’s allowance was the only money I had so I think it’s awful to see this being taken from people. I left my x with just a nappy bag and two kids. It has been very hard but I’m relieved to say that my two children are both happy at school now. They don’t see their father talking down to their mother as though she were an idiot and they don’t hear his constant judgements and his endless criticisms of me. He doesn’t pay maintenance despite being a wealthy man. There is no real consequence to denying a court order to pay maintenance. So I have no choice but to rely on benefits, for which he mocks me! He doesn’t see the irony there. David Cameron, another irony here is that although you may label ME part of the breakdown of civilisation! but I am stronger and less selfish than the children’s father. IF David Cameron met my ex he would probably think he was a thoroughly nice fellow, and a fine upstanding tax-paying citizen, and my ex believes that too! Society is not demonising him.
hiya i was a single mum from 2005 to 2010 to 3 girls youngest being 4 months old after my babies dad assulted my middle daughter who was then 3 years old i had him arrested and he went to prison for a year served six months yet another example of our justice system being rubbish ! now my girls are happy well mannered respectful children who dont go round terrorising people and wouldnt dream of it and my eldest is autistic so its been even harder for me but i have suceeded and im very proud of my girls :-~)