I am trying to live a traditional catholic life the best I can. I understand we are all called to a certain vocation. Here's the issue. Before I converted I had a daughter with a girl. She is a drug addict and hasn't been around me or my daughter in years. I have full custody. I am a single father of 29 yrs old. I don't think a single parent is traditionally a vocation. Any advice or thoughts?
For all practical purposes, I am a single father. (I am in a presumably valid marriage, but my son lives with me full-time and I homeschool him.)
Self-serving though it may be, I normally don't do uncritical, blind allegiance to
anyone, but where other single fathers are concerned, I come pretty close to bestowing that allegiance. Our society just makes the assumption that the mother is always the driving force in the life of any child (as well as the boss of home, hearth, and bank account), to the exclusion of the father, but that is not universally true.
As far as getting married, I hate to say it, but traditional Catholic women, without deeply seated personality problems (which explains a lot of lifelong singlehood among otherwise seemingly eligible women), who would be willing to raise another living woman's child, are rare as unicorns. Even if my marriage were invalid, or if my wife were to die, I'd hold out very little hope. But anything can happen.
Be assured of a special place in my daily prayers.
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