SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE? by Aaron Kahland I am going to play Devil’s advoca

SINGLE MOTHERHOOD OR CULTURE?

by Aaron Kahland

I am going to play Devil’s advocate here. Perhaps there is little problem with single mothers per say. After all, countless German boys were raised by single mothers after both WW1 and WW2 – it did not result in high crime rates, drug use and educational problems. The same can likely be said for multiple other countries who lost large numbers of their men – e.g. France post-WW1.

If so, then the problem is cultural. The culture that has unleashed the contemporary single mothers onto us – specifically in the West. Perhaps they are single for the same reason that they are poor parents – they are simply undesirable – indelibly tainted by both their own upbringings (boomer parents) and the societal environment in which they live.

Further, the absolute nuclear family simply is most probably super-fragile. It cannot withstand male losses in wartime anymore than it can resist the effects of male losses in welfare-time.

Young boys having lost fathers in previous periods were enveloped in an environment dominated by grandfathers, surviving uncles, male schoolteachers, male leaders. Today, those boys have none of those and it is to their great detriment. Boys need tribes, instead they get incompetent mothers and television.