The Pros And Cons Of A Single Mother

The essay that Katie Roiphe wrote say a lot on how single mothers are generally viewed as a bad thing. She brings up many points that Americans think single mothers cause great harm to their children and that she believes them to be wrong. Roiphe’s essay uses a lot of pathos and ethos, and she states how poverty is a big cause in children going bad. Roiphe explains how America views single mother family being very destructive for children. She then tells the reader that she herself is a single mother with two children. She states that “I am lucky enough to be living in financially stable, relatively privileged circumstances…”(Roiphe 58) She is telling the reader that even though she is a single mother she is very successful and has the same opportunity’s that a family with both parents together would have. She opens the essay explaining her situation to give a bit of ethos and pathos so that the reader may side with her more when they continue reading. Most of the pathos comes from when she is talking about her son Leo and how he enjoys seeing his father every now and then. The author states that most of the negative views that single mothers receive come …show more content…
She states that it comes down to what type of parent a person is, will show how their child will become as an adult. She states that people should change the way they think a normal family should be and think more openly about it. She wants Americans to be accepting to the different types of family’s instead of arguing about who has the right type of family. She ends her essay saying “The real menace to America’s children is not single mothers, or unmarried or gay parents, but an economy that stokes an unconscionable divide between the rich and the not rich” (Roiphe 60) this is stating that money is the biggest factor as to how a child will turn