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Single moms forcing dads to do their share

Just as many men refuse parent as mom keep kids from dads, I estimate

Emma Johnson
May 08, 2025
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The Internet is abuzz about a rabid Reddit thread serves as a poignet vortex of the fallout of canceled reproductive rights and sexist parenting attitudes. While the equal parenting movement loves to bag on women, blaming them (us!) for being solely responsible for uninvolved fathers, in this case, the man is the AH and the internet rightfully supports the mom.

In short: a couple in their 20s live in Texas and she never wanted kids but he refused to get a vasectomy, the IUD failed and she was afraid to have an illegal abortion out-of-state — a fear amplified by her husband, she said, who also balks at signing adoption papers.

Reddit goes wild over mom forcing dad to take baby 50/50

Fast-forward: the couple divorces, the baby is four months old, the Redditor is unenthusiastically a parent and the father refuses to do his share:

To be honest, I don’t really like being a mother. The baby and I just haven’t bonded much. I’ve heard that sometimes it takes a while. I’ve been overwhelmed and I …

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