are divorced moms “single” moms? if so, are divorced dads, “single” dads too?
i hear a lot of divorced women, whose ex’s take the kids on teh weekends, vacations, pay child support, etc, refer to themselves as single moms.
Personally, i think a single mom is one who is truly doing it on her own. Has the kids 24/7 with minimal, if any, child support.
What do you think of divorced moms who refer to themselves as "single" moms? does that fit your definition of a single mom? Why don’t you ever hear divorced dads refer to themselves as "single" dads?
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Just more PC garbage.
I think they should refer to themselves as Mum/Moms & Dads.
I don’t think they need to say *I am a single Mum* or *I am a single Dad*
I don’t walk around saying *I am a Married Mum*, I just call myself a Mum or Charli.
I’m a single mother-I was never married, but I do receive legal support ordered from the courts from my daughter’s father. He never really takes her alone though overnight, but will when she is over the age of 3 I’m sure. (He is still in school.) I would say a divorced mother or a mother like in my case is still a single mother. I’ve heard fathers in the same situation refer to themselves as single dads.
Why does the specific term matter? I’m not a ‘married’ mum, i’m a mum.
My dad now has full custody of my younger sisters (much younger), I don’t suppose he’s ever had to introduce himself as a ‘single’ dad, but i suppose that’s what he is. Why would you have to be doing the whole thing to ‘earn’ the status of ‘single parent’? If you are a parent, and you are single, then that’s what you are. It doesn’t mean you do more than your ex partner.
Well I happen to believe that it does make them a single parent since they are no longer married, I was married to my daughters father, but we got divorced and he has not been in our lives for several years. I don’t get a lot of child support from him, I have my own income besides the child support, I have my daughter 24/7 every day of the week. I don’t think anything of divorced parent that refer to themselves as a single parent, because to me if you are no longer married then you are single and I know a lot of others that feel the same way I do.
Single mom or Single dad means
you are single… and a parent.
it doesn’t mean "i’m the only parent"
i never viewed it any other way
A lot of divorced dads that I know don’t say i’m a single dad becaue they don’t want people knowing they have kids right away. NOT ALL OF THEM- Just a lot that I know. Shameful ain’t it!?!?