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Hey Ann Coulter – It’s Evolution, Baby!

Posted on January 9th, 2009 | 41 comments

Ann Coulter is wrong! Single parents are helping kids evolve into happy, independent people who don’t let another person define them.

Premarital Sex and the Single Parent

Posted on December 16th, 2008 | 16 comments

A pundit from the Lasting Marriage University suggests that premarital sex is a major no-no. I won’t argue with any moral stance the author takes; after all, we all subscribe to different religions and philosophies. But the blog post gets into Shakespeare quotes, libraries versus bookstores, and suggests it’s human nature that we all should [...]

Single Mom, Empty Nest

Posted on November 21st, 2008 | 19 comments

A single mom friend of mine sent her son off to college this year, and she is now living alone for the first time in her life. The empty nest has her going a little bonkers.
I can sort of relate. As a single dad with half-time custody, I spend half my time without the kids.
She [...]

Long Distance Dating for Single Parents

Posted on October 20th, 2008 | 34 comments

When it comes to dating, distance is huge for me. I simply can’t drive more than half an hour to date a woman. I’m tethered to home by my kids, even though they’re now 12 and 16.
Female friends (in real life, and in the blogosphere) give me a hard time about this, saying there should [...]

Temporary Isn’t All Bad

Posted on October 16th, 2008 | 23 comments

Guest post by y.debra, a regular Dad’s House reader.
It was David’s post about his family room that helped me think through how temporary my life has seemed over the past year. As a divorced single Mom, there was always something that I had to figure out how to live with ‘just for a little while’ [...]

Lance Armstrong Tells Vanity Fair of Tour de France Comeback

Posted on September 10th, 2008 | 20 comments

Lance Armstrong told Vanity Fair in an exclusive interview that he plans to come out of retirement and race in next year’s Tour de France. How cool is that? He won 7 consecutive Tours. A win in 2009 will give him 8 victories.
Lance, of course, is a single dad. And he was raised by a [...]

Failed Marriage or Success?

Posted on August 26th, 2008 | 21 comments

Divorce is the culmination of a failed marriage. Right? I mean, marriage is forever, and not getting to forever must have meant you screwed up. Um, not always. Rather than failed marriage, divorce can mean success.
Some background – Kat Wilder recently wrote an insightful, passionate piece about the negative view society has toward divorced families. [...]

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