“I’m divorced. I have four children. The gett and divorce proceedings are very tasking, daunting, a lot of homework, and going through it is very, very hard, emotionally and very costly. There’s very little support to go through it. The children are like, still in doubt, what to say, where to go. The beginning was very, very hard. I left my New Jersey dream home that was lively with young adult children. I landed in a Brooklyn basement all by myself, totally unprepared, financially, emotionally. That first Shabbos. I didn’t even have a tablecloth. I ran out quickly to buy any tablecloth…it was the hardest Shabbos in my life.”
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This is the reality for so many single mothers in our community. Women who have given their all to build a home, now left struggling to rebuild. This Pesach, they shouldn’t have to celebrate alone.
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That’s what it sounds like.
Im a single father who one shabbos didn’t have חלה but I don’t have victim mentality and just focused on making more money and making the best of my life
Halevai hashem give you a lot of money and only good things.
The situation is difficult for all involved. Moms, Dads, Kids. The Moms tend to cry victim the most often – despite their not necessarily wanting to work on their marriage. Binyan Adei Ad. One has to “build” to have the “everlasting”. Life is not the movies. This organization is wonderful, but don’t think for a minute that it’s a “one size fits all”. Not every single mother is a saint – even though she didn’t get married to end in divorce. I’m a single Dad. I pay child support monthly – despite being financially strained myself. My ex “rules the… Read more »
There is a reason that giving a gett is a mitzvah. You cannot work on a marriage with a partner who has personality disorder
While your wife was pregnant and raising babies you were able to cultivate your working skills. When you needed to make money,you didn’t have to even think twice about being home and getting your kids to and from School and taking off days of work when they were sick.
You are wrong. Not all mothers are homemakers. Many fathers have to run home from work, jeapordizing their jobs, because their wives can’t manage
to take care of the children. How many fathers come home, from a days work and have to feed and bathe their kids, because “Mommy doesn’t feel good.” etc. etc. There are 3 sides to every story.
Most woman don’t divorce a man who helps her that much and cares for her and her kids
Most likely the man comes home only to belittle and degrade his wife while she’s diligently caring for the kids!
Yes,yoire right. Many single divorced woman are victims of traumatic abuse
Three sides to every story
Bottom line is, its Nobody’s business and they won’t believe you anyway.
The mother is the one everyone feels sorry for. Yes, there is good reason in many cases to feel for them. However, nobody seems to comprehend the immense pain and suffering a father goes through. He didnt want to break his home apart. But she did. She left him, after years of his suffering in silence. She left with the kids, describes him as an abuser, when in actuality he was the abused one. The bais din, the courts all side with her, because she is the woman. Nobody believes the man. Nobody helps the man. He has to fight… Read more »
And Noone( except for a few close family members) feels sorry for me! Noone else! And me and my children went through horrific abuse (and they still see him)that noone would ever believe my ex husband did! Even i wouldn’t believe it of him if I hadn’t gone through it. That’s why I married him. I wasn’t blinded by love. I made a rational decision based on his phony personality . Only after marriage behind closed doors did the real villain come out.
There are NOT countless organizations that help single moms. There are very FEW. people think single moms have SO many organizations helping them when in reality some are sadly a private business on our (divorced moms) cheshbon, making us sound like destitute people. Mishpachteinei doesn’t help financially single moms. most of the money goes in the “founder’s” pocket. the (small) food pantry is all free stuff she gets from stores getting rid of their not wanted or not fresh stuff. The food she serves for shabbos she doesn’t pay a cent out of her pocket to buy it as it’s… Read more »
If this is true, that’s scary
According to studies, womans income and financial stability drops 50 percent right after divorce while men only 20 percent. But In the long run, mens income actually increases after divorce.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Crown Heights needs to have their own place where single fathers and mothers can go.
There should be a separate place for each even though having it together wouldn’t hurt the shidduch market.
No one wants to travel to Boro Park to sleep in someone else’s house.
Go for it and may you see much blessing be”H.
And it should be to benifit the children! Number one ,help pay tuition because school has been the most important stable thing for my kids!
Kind Donors & Supporters, Please do some due diligence. If there is any Parental Alienation, and you support the Alienating Parent, that is contributing to Child abuse.
I really appreciate this organization and to hear esteemed members of the community like mica sofer and rabbi Simon Jacobson care about the plight of single mothers is so touching and emotionally validating and that alone does so much for me ,thank you. At the same time, I know this organization won’t help me,just like all the other ones don’t because I’ve been rejected and not believed too many times to count. It still means alot that single moms on the whole are being given support despite all the single father’s coming here in the comments section to cause drama.… Read more »
The community does not help single mothers who struggle financially more than men. Those woman with big careers usually have a husband with children or single with no children. And what is so sad and unfortunate is the stress that children in divorced home endure when they aren’t registered to camp and school on time and the rent isn’t paid and life feels so unstable and uncertain and they have a dad that’s half there but blaming their mom for everything and putting down his own children. It’s excruciating. But there are no funds to help the children in tjese… Read more »
You would think a frum community would embrace and extend a helping hand to children from divorced homes. Crown heights community council used to give certificates to clothing stores on kingston Avenue to my divorced friend. She told me they don’t do that anymore. There are more than one family who send their kids to public schools and eat treif because Noone could care less.