New York Times, Stop Moralizing About Single Mothers

The innate self-congratulation of the Times piece, the smug sense that the average college-educated New York Times reader is enriching their children, insuring their mental health, while the sluttish, struggling, single mother is ruining theirs is? whatever the truth of the situation, which I humbly suggest is more complicated than that?extremely repellent. In the guise of writing a well-intentioned liberal piece?oh the poor single mothers! And their poor children!?the New York Times is recycling truly retrograde and ugly moral judgements.The idea that this unconventional, struggling household might sometimes be fine is so astonishing that the piece reports as news that the single mother, Jessica Schairer, sometimes records ?happy moments on her Facebook page.? When she scrambles together to take her kids on a great vacation to Orlando, Fla., the piece, in its tone of doom, hastens to warn us that this was ?more a break from their life than an embodiment of it.? (Unlike, of course, the vacations of the traditional family, where the trips to Disney are just an embodiment of their fun-filled, adventure-packed days, and not, you know, a break from the unremitting bleakness.)

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