I didn't mean to be prejudiced against single mothers but what i mentioned did happen and I would be more cautious about marrying one. However, if she isn't there to scam me, then I would date one. If she has the means to take care of the child in tow, that would be more proof she isn't trying to look for a new breadwinner for the child she would only marry me for just because she couldn't make ends meet.
I do have trust issues I admit but I have been taken by a few women and am scarred for life from this. I wasn't even married to the single mother but she didn't love me for who I am and only saw me as a free meal. You can't always blame the men and accuse them of having a victim mentality, you must blame the ones that jilted them. I would say the same about rape victims if they don't trust men. Blame the rapists for this not the woman having the trust issues. I do take the blame for having these prejudices but they are harder to get rid of the more it happens.
I get the trust issues, I fall into both groups mentioned in the quoted post... I had some serious trust issues when it came to men, because as seems to be the case with you and single mothers, what happened to me wasn't a one time thing, it wasn't even a one person thing.
When I first met my husband, I didn't trust men in the slightest, I was a single mother, I had no job, no savings, and pretty much nothing to call my own, I was living with family. My now husband was in his own home, a good job (one that requires a University education, not just a job he'd been in for a while and paid above minimum wage) and savings.
Within 4 months of meeting him for the first time, I was living with him. His friends warned him, as did his family about being with me. Told him time and time again I was just looking for a way out of my situation, looking for someone safe.
We've been together for over 10 years now. He works full time, I'm a part-time housewife and have retrained so that not only do I now manage our own business, but perform a good 50% of the work we get in, I'm also completing a degree for the sole purpose of having something more official than the work I do for our own business to put on my CV for when the kids are old enough that I can go get full time employment (financially, before and after school care just doesn't work out)
So as soon as they're old enough, we'll both be working full time while continuing to run our own business.
On paper, I was quite possibly the worst decision he could have ever made. He took a huge leap of faith when he asked me to move in with him after only knowing me for 4 months (long distance aside from 1 week)
What I'm saying is: Yes it's hard, but if you go into something with your eyes closed, you're not going to be giving these women a chance to prove you wrong. I proved every last one of his friends and family wrong, but I couldn't have done it without him giving me that chance in the first place.