Comments about ‘Financial aid offered for moms’

Talk about discrimination in government funding. This projcet should be titled "Working Parent" if they really intended to help the single fathers too. Single fathers raising a family is always getting descriminted against with very little if any aid or assistance. The single father families always suffer just as much and more than a single mother. At least the single mother can get child support from the father so she can give to their boyfriends and buy toys, booze, and drugs. Not all but many live this kind of life in a divorce. Laws should be established that cohabitating single mothers or fathers not be entitled to child support or the child support be placed in escrow accounts for the children to use when they can escape these intolerable conditions they are forced to live in. Funding programs for mothers only is a slap in the face to fathers that are also suffering from job placement and enhancements to further their education. The title says it all and the word men was added on just to look good. Restrictions will be placed on men so they can't qualify for these funds.

To Bob: You don't know what you are talking about. You talk about discrimination, how about you huh! Thank you for categorizing me into the single mother who receives child support and gives it to my boyfriend to buy toys and booze. This has been set up for the single mothers who are trying to make a better life for their children. I am a single mother working and trying as hard as I can to go to school to better my son's life, and you know what, I haven't received a PENNY of child support because your so called discriminated single father hasn't paid me a cent and refuses to have a job! I work my *&* off to support my son. Oh, and any spare money I get goes towards a college savings for my child, not to buy booze or toys. Stop discriminating against single mothers! There are plenty of us out there who are good mothers and who care more about our kids than anything, let alone a boyfriend!

The point Bob is making is that the govt. is only specifying women, and then throwing men in as a last minute thought.

Single fathers do have it bad in many cases. I know I fought long and hard in court JUST to have equal rights as my ex. I have a very unusual case in UT being that I'm not paying my ex for anything.

Let see results first in one area, later we can include others concerned

FYI...Fathers are also encouraged to apply. The Scholarship campaign will consider both. I called and spoke with them.

It doesn't have to be single parents either. It can be parents who are married.