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31600, RE: Sistahs, what's the verdict?
Posted by Nettrice, Fri Oct-21-05 07:53 AM
>Sisters are doing it for themselves, but not for thier kids,
>especially the boys. Most men in jail did not have a decent
>male role model to go to(women in jail as well). Many have
>been abused and exposed to things they should not have been as
>children. We may not need men, but our children do and there
>is no way around it. It takes two for a reason.

Of course there are exceptions, too. However, I know a woman who took out her pain of being abandoned by her son's father on her son. I've seen this a couple of times. My mother was divorced most of my childhood but she never said anything against my father. In fact, after a certain age she allowed us to spend summers with him. Even later in my teens she allowed me to have a male mentor (he was married and had his own family). In retrospect, I am amazed that arrangement worked out...it never became sexual, yet, I learned a lot about sexuality from my mentor.