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Episode 50| We Call Her a Single Mom. What Do We Call Him?
I’ve been called a single mom for years. It’s accurate—but it’s incomplete.
I raised my boys as a single mother. They were also raised in a fatherless home because their fathers chose not to parent them. Those two truths are not the same, and the language we use determines where we place the scrutiny.
In this episode, I’m talking about why society examines the parent who stayed while barely questioning the one who left, why financial support isn’t the same as parenting, and why telling the truth about abandonment doesn’t make someone bitter.
One truth tells you who stayed.
The other tells you…
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