Oh man, I just read through 6 pages of this thread and am so sad.
I love men. There is equal amount of blame on both gender sides for all things, espescially involving family, marriage and gender issues. Still, men in our current day culture are blamed a lot.
Disbelief is my only reaction when anyone would dare assert that single motherhood is majority at the fault of men! The only case in which that is true is rape. In a mutually consenting situation, even if the man in question is of questionable character, "deadbeat", what have you, a woman is totally responsible for who she sleeps with! If you sleep with a low character man, what do you expect? Because women are the carriers of children, is all the more reason to hold our bodies to higher standards than just sleeping with some guy (that you apparently wouldn't want to father children with? Whaaaat?). This selectivity really goes for both genders in regards to pregnancy. But really, removing a woman's responsabity for who she sleeps with is both absurd, and disrespectful-- so we are just helpless to say no, or something? Total crap.
I've spent most of my life watching men and women blame each other-- I am so sick of that. Succeed or fail, it's a two way street.
My brother got his girlfriend pregnant almost two years ago, and ended up marrying her (even though I don't think he would have in other circumstances) because he is a really stand up guy-- almost too standup sometimes. My SIL walks all over him sometimes, if not outright, then through manipulation. I almost punched her in the face last summer because of it. But no, my brother protects her.
I feel for this issue, on both sides of the gender wall. No one is innocent, and anyone who thinks their gender is an out-and-out victim is full of it.
*sigh*