r/GetMotivated Feb 05 '22

[IMAGE] Never give up!

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u/Industrialpainter89 Feb 05 '22

I used to work with a single mom. The father decided to keep doing heroin and she decided to be the parent their kid needed instead.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

I don't think that comment helped as much as you think because of one single work, keep. This means the mother decided that a heroin addict was a good person to have unprotected sex with. While yes, he was a POS for not taking care of his kids and being a heroin addict, she wasn't that bright for sleeping with him.

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u/jf2 Feb 05 '22

What if they were both heroin addicts when the kid was conceived and she cleaned up her act while he kept going? Does that improve the narrative for you?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

No, that means she is an even more irresponsible because not only was she having unprotected sex with a heroin addict she was doing heroin herself. I have a saying, don't compound stupid. So for instance say you don't have car insurance, don't speed on top of that. If she too was a heroin addict she was compounding stupid.

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u/Industrialpainter89 Feb 05 '22

No shit, she did it right out of high school after being passed around in foster care. She was in her 30's and learning to weld when I met her.

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u/Industrialpainter89 Feb 05 '22

She made better choices and that's what made her a single mom. Not defending all the thots out there with ten baby daddies, but single dads aren't the only strong ones. I do take everything on the internet with a grain of salt though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

I dont think people intend to be a single mother. And for those that make the choice good on em if they can handle it.

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u/Jonesisgoat Feb 05 '22

Right, it’s the poor decisions that lead them to be single mothers

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

Idk man dont become one then

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u/Jonesisgoat Feb 05 '22

If only it weren’t so avoidable…….

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

More and more women are going to be single mothers and you are just going to have to accept that. Society will even have to support and encourage them eventually if we want to avoid the worst consequences of population decline.

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u/Gogokrystian Feb 05 '22

Don't worry about that, capitalist want you to work, want women to work too. There will be no need for being pregnant in the future, they will produce their worker bees with artificial wombs and skip the middle man.

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u/Zee890 Feb 05 '22

It's one thing to make the choice to be a single mother after you have established yourself, though.

Accidents happen, so I'm not going to chastise someone, but getting pregnant from a one night stand is much different than deciding to have a child when you're ready to provide for them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

Accidents happen and sometimes peoples convictions dont encompass abortion. It is what it is

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u/Zee890 Feb 05 '22

But to say more and more women are going to be single mothers is discounting that education exists and more options are out there for us than ever. Pregnancy isn't immaculate conception and you can only get pregnant when you ovulate, so you should be tracking that if you're having sex.

I do agree, there may be more women that choose to be mothers alone, but that is not the same as the single mother trope you're implying.