|
|
eLetters: Very amusing but for false stereotypes
In response to: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne
Sue Weaver
Affiliation: None
Posted on: January 3, 2001
I am a pediatric charge nurse and, formerly, a public health attorney who prosecuted many child protective service and mental-health conservatorship cases. I am also the single mother of a toddler who loves Pooh. I was quite amused by your psychoanalyses, but also disturbed by your perpetuation of false stereotypes regarding single mothers. We are not all uneducated, 'blowsy' trampy women who father children out of wedlock by multiple partners. Our children are not condemned to become juvenile delinquents. Indeed, most CURRENT research relates delinquency to parents' educational and socioeconomic status, NOT marital status. Those of us who CHOSE single parenthood and who are educated professionals obviously do not pose the same risk to our offspring as the mother whose partner deserted her, or one who became a mother because of lack of other options in her life, etc.While overall your story gave me a good laugh, I am quite offended by your portrayal of single mothers. Kindly get yourselves out of the 1950's and into the 21st century.
Copyright 2001 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors |
Canadian
Medical Association Journal