Question by silvercomet: Why do divorced (and widowed) mothers call themselves “single moms”?
Why don’t they just say they are divorced (or widowed)? There’s no reason to be ashamed.
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Answer by ganja_claus
For the same reason you would sell used stuff “As good as new”
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I don’t think they’re ashamed, but what they’re saying is the truth….they’re single and they’re moms.
To get sympathy.
It sounds better than divorced.
Because I AM thank you. What makes you think it’s “shameful” to admit being divorced or widowed? More than being an unmarried mother? Yes, I’m divorced, but who cares? I’m first a mother THEN a divorcee.
Because they -are- single.
How they got that way, whether thru divorce or widowhood or never having been married in the first place, is nobody’s business but their own.
They are hoping to find another meal ticket and another daddy for their kids. “Single” is sexy to some poor slob who will marry these harriets, get divorced and lose a lot of money.
Nothing to be ashamed of really. But single-mother is the one, who’s charged with the upbringing of the child all alone… she may be widowed, divorced or unmarried.
it’s not shame, they ARE single…if you are divorced you are single, if you are widowed you are single…where in there does it say shame? when u meet someone for the first time do u tell them your whole life story?
It has nothing to do with being ashamed. They are calling it what it is. A single mom is a single mom no matter why she is. There’s no use labeling a section of single moms as “divorced”, another sect as “never married” and yet another for “widowed”. Regardless of circumstance, they are all single moms.
Because they are doing the job of raising kids alone.
Just to make sure no one thinks they are gay.
because they are single moms.
I say I’m divorced when I have to but my daughter doesn’t like to talk about her dad(he’s hurt her so much) so if people ask I’ll tell them but I’d prefer people to think that I wasn’t married, it was a very painful time in my life that I want to forget
You’re either single or married. Anything else is really giving away too much information. Of course unless you want to.