Church Fires Unwed Mother For Refusing to Marry Fiancé
Apryl Kellam was dismissed from her position at a church day care after refusing to marry her fiancé. Kellam told CBS 6 that she was fired by her supervisor at Staples Mill Road Baptist Church in Virginia because she was in violation of church policy.
Rand Paul Thinks Unmarried Poor Women Should Just Stop Having Sex
Aging Brillo pad Rand Paul has a brilliant suggestion for a weapon in his ongoing war against the terrifying dragon of the unwed single mother who won't stop living off the government: tell her that if she won't stop having kids, she doesn't get any more government benefits. Rand Paul also famously opposes giving…
Having a Single Mom Is Worse Than Not Being Able to Vote, Says Dumbass
Maybe it's unfair to call George Will a dumbass; he gives off the vibe that his Soduku skills are nothing to sneeze at and he's probably got a photographic memory for the complex requirements of toupee care (because George Will's scalp cozy looks like it's been pampered like a 24 year old mistress). However, he did…
We Should Probably Stop Blaming the Crime Rate on Single Mothers
During the second Presidential debate last month, Mitt Romney suggested that one way to reduce Aurora, Colorado-style mass assault weapon shootings would be to encourage everyone to just get married before they have babies. Blaming single parents for violence has long been a dog whistle talking point of the family…
Unmarried Fathers Abandon Families to Spare Their Own Delicate Feelings
Tale as old as time: boy meets girl, girl likes boy, boy and girl fall in love (or like). And then some less-wedding toast worthy stuff happens — midnight sexting that possibly culminates in digital dick pics, some frottage, and sex having. For more highly educated, economically advantaged couples, this dick…
Study Finds that Poor People Have Really High Hopes for Marriage
A cabal of UCLA psychologists has gathered together to bring us a brand new marriage study, which finds that poor people in America value the institution just as much as their fellow middle class and high-income citizens. Published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, the study aimed to figure out whether or not $1…
Why Aren't We Talking More About Deadbeat Dads?
Apparently, it's awful to be a single mother in America. They're are more likely to have lower levels of education, lower income, and if they're uneducated they're much less likely to get married than their more educated counterparts, which shuts them out of the added income a husband can provide for a family. To make…
Rick Santorum Thinks That Single Women Who Breed Need to be Kicked in the Butt
Anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-college Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is also anti-single mother — or at least he was when he first ran for Senate, back when he was, by his own admission, less of a zealot than he is today. During a Pennsylvania town hall meeting, he told the gathered crowd that welfare…
The Anti-Baby Mama Campaign
A South Carolina-based midwife has launched her own campaign against the "normalization against the baby mama," aimed at the black community.
Mike Huckabee Attacks Natalie Portman For "Glamorizing" Single Motherhood
Apparently Mike Huckabee has learned nothing from the mistakes of his Republican predecessors. On a radio show this week, Huckabee criticized Natalie Portman for sending the message that it's okay to have a child "out of wedlock," because attacking Murphy Brown went so well for Dan Quayle nearly two decades ago.
The He-Cession Led To A He-Covery
Since men make up more than half of the participants in the labor market (and make more money), they were unsurprisingly harder hit by the recession. Surprisingly, though, they're now better off during the recovery than many women.
—J.K. Rowling
on being a single mother in the UK [TimesOnline]
Rabbis Have Spoken: Single Moms Officially Not Kosher
Rabbi Menachem Burstein, head of the Puah Institute, a Jewish fertility organization, has declared that "there is not one rabbinical religious authority in the world allowing a single woman to give birth." (God apparently doesn't count.) Why?
Single Moms In The U.S. & Abroad: Who Says They're All Single?
The National Center for Health Statistics says that single women comprise 40 percent of new mothers in the U.S., which still leaves us far behind Europe. Thing is, in Europe, most aren't so single.
UK Law: Single Moms Must Name Baby's Father On Birth Certificate
Some British charities are disturbed by a new law that would require all single mothers to name a father on their children's birth certificates.

