Kara -

Who said there were no men in our lives? Just because we're single doesn't mean we don't have male friends and relatives.

You sound like the prof. who said that more men were needed in teaching so as to provide role models for kids from single parent families. What a joke! Most of the men in the teaching profession I would not want as role models for my children. Besides that, I am quite capable of finding men that serve as positive role models. If not, they aren't allowed in our home.

Patronizing people, deciding what it is they need, doesn't help anybody to gain independence.