Yeah. Most people I know have cheated on someone, or their bf/gf cheated on them. Even my coworkers cheat on their bf/gf or even fiances. It's a shame.
@diyrogue I know how you feel. A woman my bf works with doesn’t understand how he can be happy with just me and she constantly makes inappropriate comments to him (asks his dick size, how he is in bed). She doesn’t understand why he won’t play along. This is a woman who has a husband AND a boyfriend
@stonedknight
He has a coworker just like that as well, and when she ends one affair she'll get another right away to fill in the gap and then complain about the men she's cheating with
I had no idea being raised by a single mother would make me a cheater! Better tell my mom, who worked 16 hours a day to raise two unruly boys, she would be flabbergasted.
I can only speak of what I've observed and experienced.
I will not apologize in the face of an anecdote, not when I've seen so many cases of the contrary, in my own family and tribe, no less.
Your experience is no less anecdotal than that of platypus. The idea that single parents cause cheaters is just as stupid an assumption as the idea that single parents cause trans or homosexual people. Statistically speaking people raised by a single mother faired better than people with a father and stepmother. If you don't want anecdotal evidence as a counter to something you say don't go spouting anecdotal evidence in the first place.
I never said "single parents cause cheaters". I said "those people weren't even raised by their parents", assuming "one or either" were in their lives in the first place.
I'm glad your so called "many cases" prove, without exception, your personal view on parents and cheating. That must be the universal, or even prevailing, truth of the matter, then. Glad we solved this societal ill.
Pulling snippets of your comment changes the perceived semantics. The way it's written the first statement gives lead to the second rather than them being 2 statements separated. The either or both section of the statement suggests that neither parent and only one parent are comparably equivalent and with the lead in from the prior statement, which is separated by only a comma rather than it being it's own statement, gives the idea that single parents are as inadequate at raising a child as a pair of absentee parents.
Reading too deeply into it would be to change the perceived meaning in favor of behind the word means. I was merely explaining what a persons first impression would most likely be based on the wording and punctuation structure using more than 3 words to describe what it would appear to mean. Literally as surface meaning as it can get.
That's because divorce has extreme effects on a child's mind because of the quick transition and feeling of abandonment and oftentimes guilt of the traumatic event. Trying to correlate that to someone growing up with a single parent is asinine. Statistically children are happier during the ages of 10-14 with a single mother as their parent rather than both biological parents. That fact correlated about equally to the matter at hand as the one you proffered forth.
Firstly, I can't find any source to verify your claim. Secondly, the original point was about cheating, not about the well being of the children. I'm just pointing out some interesting info about what famousone said.
63 percent of suicides nationwide are individuals from single-parent families. 75 percent of children in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families. More than half of all youths incarcerated in the U.S. lived in one-parent families as a child.Nov 24, 2012
That is very bull. The one stat I know off the top of my head out of those is that chemical abuse stats are at about 1 percent of 2 parent family and about 3 percent of single parent family.
He has a coworker just like that as well, and when she ends one affair she'll get another right away to fill in the gap and then complain about the men she's cheating with
I will not apologize in the face of an anecdote, not when I've seen so many cases of the contrary, in my own family and tribe, no less.
"Either or both"
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