Archive for May, 2009
Hall of Shame?
Here at AtMP we have better things to do than publicly shame and stigmatize people with whom we disagree. But there will always be others who think its appropriate to, say, stigmatize unwed mothers or bring back the shame of divorce. New data on the rising number of unmarried parents is provoking waves of fingerwagging in the media. Here are a couple of this week’s examples.
There’s no stigma to unwed parenthood anymore, but there should be.
Editors at these and other media sources need to learn that readers want to see proposals to help all parents and children succeed, rather than blaming and scolding. Take advantage of comment pages; write letters to editors!
Do you know someone who’d rather shame than help unmarried parents? Print out our Affirmation of Family Diversity, and hand it to them!
For an antidote, check out AtMP members Raymond & Kristina – the unmarried parents featured in Time Magazine. (By the way, that ” sociologist [who] dubbed [them] committed unmarrieds (CUs)” is Alison Hatch, who was recently a member of AtMP’s Board of Directors. AtMP worked closely with the author of this article, as we often do behind the scenes.)
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May 15th, 2009 by Nicky
