Well, as a single parent for some years, I do have to agree that this is not really an ideal situation...for anyone...but I do have to refute the simplistic charges of harm being done to our unfathered sons because hey...life is complicated. See, while I was doing the sole parenting for a few years, it is fair to say that male role-models for my son were usually readily available because we did not live on an isolated one family outer-Hebridean croft but in a provincial town. My reasonable insistence that single -parenting is not always an easy route rests less on gender balance and more on the quantity of available support. Any single parent household, of whatever gender, will experience considerable difficulties - not least because of the sheer demands of parenting...and add in a modicum of financial insecurity and the difficulties add up.
I am aware of the often right-wing and reactionary diatribes against the single parent family and will concede that, according to some metrics, children are often disadvantaged...but whether this is because of lack of a male father figure...or more likely because it is tiring and stressful to be a fully engaged parent ALL THE TIME without respite...is a wild accusation which bears a more nuanced analysis.
eta - I wouldn't want to speculate why Daryush V is such a despicable arsewipe.
