“Number two, I don’t like to use anecdotes in arguments, but I am a single mother, and because I don’t have a husband I have more time to lavish on my child. I know that I read to my child and spend more time on her development more than the other mothers I know.”
Because you don’t have a husband, your daughter doesn’t have a first-hand, day-to-day example of how a healthy marriage works. And as for “more time on her development more [sic] than the other mothers I know,” who cares? That doesn’t mean a thing if the other mothers you know are never home or ignore their children or are simply rotten mothers, period.
I have sympathy for couples with children who get divorced due to issues that can’t be worked out (addiction, et cetera), and I appreciate never-married women who try to raise their children the best they can. But let’s not fool ourselves and pretend those kids don’t have something missing from their lives.
