Single parents in ED

[cherry]

Are there any other single parents in East Dulwich? Or am I the only one?

[falcao]

yes you are by the looks of it.

[mockney piers]

Blimey, there is almost nothing on this topic on previous threads at all.

These are the best I could do.

Dulwichmum on a mother and baby group.

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,1957

and err...dulwichmum talking about the same group on a different thread

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1958,1962#msg-1962

Couldn't really find anything on the Southwark Council site specifically to single parents either I'm afraid.

I tried :(

[maxbabe]

I'm a single parent.......but then I do live in peckham does that count!

[Muttley]

Just a guess, but wouldn't surprise me if single parents have typically less free time to sit down and indulge in EDF chat. So they would be under-represented on this forum. Let's look at the evidence:

Cherry - registered 04/07 - number of posts 3, average 0.01 posts per day

Mockney Piers - registered 11/06 - number of posts 4,508, average 10 posts per day

And that, members of the jury, is the case for the prosecution.

[*Bob*]

You're joking, aren't you Mutters? Theys all livin of the bennifitt and watchin Trisha all day. And it's old Muggins ere whats got to carry the can. If my Grandad were alive today he'd shoot the lot of them.

[Muttley]

*Bob* - registered 02/07 - number of posts2,302, average 5.7 per day.

Hmm, I feel a graph coming on. What should go on the X axis?

[cherry]

Good point Muttley, maybe after a few days some more will have got round to catching up with the forum... we'll see.

In the meantime, hi Maxbabe! Peckham's got to count as it looks like it's just the two of us..

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I strongly resent that Bob - I'm watching Cheltenham. I've put all your hard-earned taxes on the pretty one in pink and green.

[*Bob*]

I strongly resent that, Peckhamgatecrasher - they weren't hard-earned.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I want to marry David Pipe then I won't be stigmatised and Bob's grandpaw won't shoot me.

[KalamityKel]

Muttley, surely u can't include those who don't have kids but instead have boring jobs

[????]

Whilst we sympathise and are very much on your side - unlike tories/many in the w/c and people who live in Kensington - we don't really want you living next door, be a good girl and move to SE15, with our full liberal support and best wishes obviously

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Dear pounds

What does someone in the water closet have to do with anything?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I'm a single parent, but even when I was married I was still a single parent so the only difference is that I just have more room in my wardrobe and a babysitter every second weekend!

[SteveT]

I am single parent family, the family (two daughters) stay generally with there mother and I have the pleasure of their company to get their car fixed when it gives trouble.

Sadly I don't think I am the right age group for anyone to be interested 60+.

So this is a totally irrelevent post, and I wished I had gone to bed earlier.

[Maximay]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> I'm a single parent, but even when I was married I

> was still a single parent so the only difference

> is that I just have more room in my wardrobe and a

> babysitter every second weekend!

Could swear in earlier posts you went "away" away for 2 years, were you married at the time? Or did you foster your kids out? not nit picking just curious, as a father myself get fed up with the one sided pictures a lot of single (particularly female) parents paint of absent fathers

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

No Cheltenham today, it will have to be Richard & Judy.

[EDmummy]

I am very confused by some of the responses to this genuine post. Is it a joke that a single parent may be trying to find a local network of people in a similar situation?

Cherry, I know a number of local single parents but Muttley is probably right, many don't have time to sit down and respond to the forum.

Good luck.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I think the problem is, Edmummy, Cherry didn't specify what she wanted. Just to pose the question "Are there any single parents in ED?" was never going to engender helpful replies.

[cherry]

Thanks EDmummy, your right I was just wondering if there was anyone locally in a similar situation to me, as despite knowing loads of parents round here I don't know any who are single. Looks like the forum isn't the best place to find them but then where is??

Hi Chav, with you on the wardrobe comment but annoyingly don't get the free babysitting!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

So Maximay you say you are a Father yourself, but when discussing what to get at Xmas you said "Lucky he gets them anything, my kid's dad gets them bugger all!".

I think it is about time you declared your vested interest in slagging me off and stop hiding behind anonymity, unless that is you're scared incase instead of judging me, you yourself become the one 'in the dock'.

[Jah Lush]

Yeah! What gives Maximay? You do have previous.

[SteveT]

To give someone a hard time about their past when they have been open and honest is outrageous Maximay.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I have a feeling Maximay is in fact female, lied about having a child who died from an overdose, is intimately connected with my ex-husband and feels the need to have a go at me for her own sad reasons.

My ex-husband is part of my past and although we are civil to each other nowadays for the sake of the kids, Maximay seems to be unable to move on or accept there may have been some blame in the breakdown of our marriage to lay at his door as well as mine.