It doesn’t build up motherhood or empower woman to tear down fathers, whether you think they deserve it or not.
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1- Don’t be bitter.
Even if you feel your bitterness is justified and caused by circumstances that may have been out of your control you have to stop and consider what message that bitterness is sending to your children, especially if you have sons.
Children internalize everything. When you speak ill of another parent in front of them they perceive it as an insult aimed at them. After all they are their father’s child.
All bitterness begets is man hating feminists out of our daughters and sons who think being a father can be replaced by a mother because their own mothers deemed fatherhood useless.
Bitterness perpetuates the cycle of abandonment.
Respect. Katrina never lets herself off easy. Definitely worthwhile to read the rest, if you’re a single mom or not.