Portland PARKA: Parents Raising Kids Alone

We are mothers who did it all ourselves from the very start (conception?). We are raising wonderful children in Portland by ourselves, and doing a darned wonderful job of it! You are welcome to join us if you are a single woman with a child, planning a child, or thinking about having or adopting a child on your own.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

supportive posts

Hi all, I just needed to point out that as much as I think we all enjoyed the conversation about "what I love about being a single mom," I am now having to insist that this group return to it's original objective: being a support to single moms by choice. I apologize if this offends single dads, and I am sure some people find offense in anything that does not include them, but here is my suggestion: Start your own blog, and include everyone. Single moms, single dads, single grandparents, by choice, circumstance, adoption, location of aliens in a farmers field after a meteor shower,whatever. I might even join that group. But for now, I am going to moderate comments and only post the ones that are supportive and on topic (sorry to my friend Aaron...I always enjoy a good challenge, but I no longer feel this is the proper forum). If you do start the group or blog I am talking about, please post a comment to this blog. I welcome and embrace the opportunity. In the meantime, I did do a blog search for single dads' groups, and they are out there. Have at it. Maybe there are some like minded men out there who would like to help start a forum for these discussions. I hope you all have a wonderful spring, Easter, Passover, or whatever you aknowledge as being special for you...