This is an aspect of single mother parenthood that does not get talked about much. A woman has a child out of wedlock and her subsequent "boyfriends" have no interest at all in being surrogate fathers to their children.
Mommy’s boyfriend is the statistically largest percentage of child-killers.
Animals.....
her subsequent “boyfriends” have no interest at all in being surrogate fathers to their children....It’s even more primal than that. Humans are like lions: The offspring have no genes of his, so the urge to hurt or destroy is there. Only man’s Free Will curtails more of these stories from happening.
And the tramp of a mother does not protect her own children from animals like this.
It has always been true, whether the mother is widowed, divorced or was never married. It also remains almost equally as dangerous for the children of single fathers. This danger in single parenting scared me so much, that I eventually refrained from even “dating”.
There are some fantastic steparents out there, I have met a few of them, and this isn't a male bashing opinion.
The odds are stacked heavily against finding a supportive partner, especially for teenagers, but also for any single parent who continues to have “relationships” outside of marriage, and/or allows anyone not firmly committed to raising children, unsupervised access to them.
But there is no escaping the truism that the mothers boyfriend is the most dangerous person in the life of a child.
It's what male lions do.