Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "The Advantages of Being a Single Mother, According to CNN" video.

  1. From my lifelong work experience, some significant advantages of being a single mother include dicking around and doing whatever you want, being unreliable and flaky, never taking responsibility for mistakes, and constantly manipulating people's sympathy for your advantage.
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  2. Yea obviously there is overlap, having a 2 parent household doesn't guarantee success, and single mothers don't guarantee a life of poverty and suffering. But when you look at statistics spanning several decades, and millions of people, the statistical advantage of 2 parent households is staggering, and undeniable.
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  3.  @Michelle-uh7qi  they don't "date" because most of their dates don't have a reason to call them back after the first time.
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  4. ​ @keegobricks9734  it's possible, but rare. It also depends how long it's been a single mother household. Like if the dad dies or something and the kid is a teenager, it might be alright, it all depends on the circumstances and the relationship between the kid and the mom. But it's definitely never an advantage.
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  5.  @edenbreckhouse  get outta here with your "stats", we don't care about "facts" and silly things like "logic". My emotions tell me women good.
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  6. I'm somewhere between conservative and libertarian, closer to libertarian. I don't want government to do much, I think people can solve most of their own problems within their communities if they have a little push in the ass by the government not offering to help with everything. But one of the few things I do want the government to do is incentivize healthy life choices. Our government is doing the opposite of that
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  7. My parents divorced when I was about 12 I think, my brother and I stayed with my dad because my mom was bat shit insane. That's why they divorced, she wasn't like that when we were kids though, she gradually slipped into insanity. And I mean the actual version of insanity, not the self induced psychosis that's over diagnosed today, the classical, real mental illness, the kind that's just a chemical imbalance in the brain that can't be stopped. Runs in her family. And it was hard for my dad, obviously, 2 teenage boys and working 50+ hours a week. Luckily we were old enough that we could at least survive on our own for the most part, it's not like we were little kids that needed constant supervision. Being a single parent isn't impossible, but it's certainly not ideal. And my dad was not a normal person either, there aren't many people who could endure everything he did and do it as well as he did.
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  8.  @proven22x52  yep, you know I nailed it because hoes mad.
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  9.  @SweatyFatGuy  exactly, that's been my usual experience too, they all whine about how they can't find a good man, and act like it's the fault of the entire male gender. They don't seem to realize that good men do exist, most of them are just already in a marriage or relationship with a good woman. Doesn't mean there's no hope for single moms, and they're just old dried up used goods, but most of the time they're old dried up used goods, through their own bad decisions. And I believe people deserve second chances, despite what it may seem like in this comment thread, I don't consider myself an overly judgemental person, I've sure as hell made some poor decisions in my own life. But I've also never acted like I'm owed anything, and I understand that my own bad decisions have put me in bad situations. You live and you learn, and you're supposed to do something to improve your situation, not just cry about it and expect the world to forgive you and pretend like there's nothing wrong, when there's obviously something wrong.
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  10.  @TheMohawkNinja  yea I think that would be considered a broken home rather than a single parent home. Still not ideal, but not as bad as not even knowing your father, or barely knowing him.
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