When I decided to pursue being a Single Mother By Choice, a story that you and many others here have heard before. It involved fighting a system that didn’t want to deal with me as a single woman, to dealing with a social structure that would praise a teenager for keeping and raising a child from an unwanted pregnancy, but censure an educated, financially secure, woman who chose to do this after a lot of thought and consideration.
Thirty plus years later, I still occasionally get criticized for that decision. <eyeroll>
@Jeruba I remember there used to be people who moderated the topics, and I think they were rather silly. Sure, get the obscene ones out, but so many times appropriate ones were dumped because the person doing that job simply hadn’t carefully read the Q.