Since when??

Just when did being a single parent become a legitimate excuse for things? More and more when something happens it's because she was a single mother....or he/she was from a single parent home. I hear this statement on a constant basis.....I'm a single mother so....fill-in-the-blank. It's one thing I seem to feel less and less tolerant of.

Just this morning while getting ready for work there was a piece on Good Morning America about the woman who sprayed her kid down at a car wash because the child was throwing a temper tantrum. I'm not saying it was right but what really pissed me off was the comment from the interviewer, 'she's a single mother about to be a mother for the second time and she was doing the best she knew to cope in the situation'. WTF????? She's a single mother and about to be a mother again????

I guess I'm old-fashioned because I am amazed by the number of unwed women continually having children and when something goes wrong the reason is because they were a single parent (said in a snarky tone). No one seems to take responsibility anymore and I'm tired of my tax dollars paying for these people who sit at home on their ass and continually have kids by every Tom, Dick and Harry. It's time for some mandatory sterilzation.

It wouldn't surprise me if next we hear she's suing the attendant who reported her because the strain of it all caused stress. And heaven forbid that unborn child has some sort of birth defect for there will be some lawyer to link it to the stress caused by the fallout from her having sprayed the first kid.

And while I'm on my soapbox....did you hear about the lawyer who's suing the casinos for her gambling probem? Some moronic lawyer-I forget where-has embezzled money from clients which she then used to support her gambling addiction which she blames on the casinos for not recognizing she had a problem and cutting her off. Once again, WTF???