Its time for me to confirm what many of you have already suspected. I love single moms.

And why shouldn’t I? Single moms have been a part of my life almost from the start. My own mother and father split when I was three and my brother, sister and I were raised by my mother. And though my mother later remarried, my image of her as a hard working single mother never faded.

Years later, when spending the holidays in Omaha after moving to Kansas City, my twenty-three year old sister told me she was pregnant. Even more significantly, she told me she didn’t even like the father a little bit and had no intention of marrying him. I then stood in bewildered awe as I watched her raise one of the most amazing and well adjusted boys I’ve ever met.

Now that I’ve entered the ranks of part-time single dads, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with so many amazing single moms. I have also gotten hooked on some great single mom blogs, like modern single momma, ms. single mama, and better now. There are tons more.

When I first started to wander around in this amazing online community of single parents, the question came up on one blog I visited as to whether single moms should divulge their single mom status early in a relationship, or if they should “check the box’ on online dating sites that declares their status. The implication was that doing so would likely chase away prospective partners. I was shocked that the question would even be asked! So I’ll end this short post with the comment I left there. It was my first declaration in the single parent community, and still the best expression of where I stand...

“Are you joking? Single Moms are HOT! There is just no two ways about it. I would seriously respond to a single mom before an inexperienced single woman in an online posting. Lets face it, most of the paths to single motherhood are unpleasant. That means that single moms have already faced fears, looked reality square in the face, are working their butts off for the betterment of others and STILL come up smiling and full of hope. In my book, that makes them the queen of women. Single women with stars and hearts over their heads can just go sit down. There is no comparison.”

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