8. "RE: Sistahs, what's the verdict?" In response to In response to 7
>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.