Toxic Masculinity: Man Bashes Single Mothers & Children

Friday, 14 June 2024

By: TB Obwoge

In the United States of America there are millions of households lead by single women. However this was the oddest post I've seen in a while, a grown man called a child lost, a 12-year old child. I often wonder what the Hell is wrong with some people. This clearly is a lost man because he said a whinning 12-year old male child was lost, such a sad human.

Here are some of the stats according to Statista;

U.S. number of families with a single mother 1990-2022. In 2022, there were around 15.04 million families with a female householder and no spouse present in the United States, decrease from the previous year.

In 2022, there were around 15.04 million families with a female householder and no spouse present in the United States, decrease from the previous year.

You can get an overview on the total number of households in the U.S. here.

Source: Statista

A report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that 62% of new moms in their early 20s

are unmarried. The report also found that 36% of all moms were unwed in 2011, up

from 31% in 2005. In families with incomes of less than $10,000, that number goes up

to 69%.

Single moms are one of the most disadvantaged groups in the U.S.—nearly 30% of

their families live under the poverty line, according to the US Census, as compared

with 62% of families with married parents.

➲  18.4% of all births in the U.S. in 1980 were to unmarried women

➲  40.6% of all births in the U.S. in 2008 were to unmarried women

In 1960, just 5 million children under 18 lived with only their mother. By 1980 that

number had more than doubled. Today, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation,

19 million children live in single-mother families, up from 17 million in 2000. In some

school districts today, including several in New York and Michigan, the majority of

families are led by a single mother.

Twenty five million children are growing up without fathers in the home. That’s 40%

of the kids in America. As reported by the Center for Children and Families:

➲  40% of all live births in the US are to single mothers.

➲  90% of welfare recipients are single mothers.

➲  70% of gang members, high school dropouts, teen suicides, teen pregnancies

and teen substance abusers come from single mother homes.

Statistically, a child in a single-parent household is far more likely to experience

violence, commit suicide, continue a cycle of poverty, become drug dependent,

commit a crime or perform below his peers in education.

Source: PostCA.GOV

In a recent article in the LA Times it explains about the using single mothers as scapgoats. This theme has been spoken about so often and many men are angry at single mothers, however not angry at the men that left women and didn't take their children with them.

Here is a portion from that article from the Los Angeles Times;

Opinion: Single mothers like me are easy scapegoats. But the case for marriage is a myth

I am happier as a single mother than I ever was as a married one. Despite the fact that 47% of Americans think single mothers are bad for society, becoming one made my life and my children’s lives much better. This was made clear to me during the COVID-19 shutdown, when my kids were in third grade and kindergarten and Zoom school would often drive all three of us to tears. I was making near poverty-level wages, still trying to dig myself out of the debt of divorce and the cost of living.

Single mothers have been blamed for everything including crime rates, school shootings and poverty. Alone and without a man, they are the specter of our cultural anxiety. People wring their hands and wonder who their sons will look up to without husbands around. As if sons can’t love and admire their mothers and see them as models for humanity.

Single mothers are more likely than married women to be poor and to face the pressures of the wage gap, and the lack of affordable child care and healthcare in the U.S. But single mothers themselves are not the cause of these deficiencies; we are merely a byproduct.

Source LA Times

A Facebook user that goes by the name of Jason Black made several posts bashing single mothers. He also made posts about male children not being masculine enough. As if boys are supposed to behave as grown men during their childhoods.

After making a post about 12-year old boys whinning, he then goes to the comment section with several other men to bash and blame single mothers.

Very odd that a grown man would say that a child is lost, a 12-year old child at that. The human brain doesn't even fully mature until 25-years old. This post is very concerning that an adult would write off a child as "lost" at such a young age. There is no telling what this grown man also considers whinning. I pray that he doesn't have children.

Here is the comment he posted in the comment section below this immature post.

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