share: Single moms raise criminals, strippers, rapists and murders.... say what?!?

I haven't heard this, but from your post it sounds horrible. Is Ann Coulter blaming the single moms or the kids' no-where-to-be-found dads? (From your post, I'm assuming it is another "blame the victim" scenario with the woman to blame).

I'm not sure if I can stomach any information about this, if I do decide to look into it further...

oh, and just an aside, did she really lump "strippers" into the same category as rapists and murderers?!

Personally, I think Ann Coulter is out in left field without a compass. I've known a lot of single moms who raised better kids than those from intact families. I'm sure there probably are troubled children, of single moms, who grow into troubled adults, but I'd like to know where Ann Coulter gets her statistics.

Come to think of it...wasn't President-Elect Obama raised by a single mom?

I watched Ann Coutler on the Today show and had to turn it off, this women makes me crazy. Ann Coulter sets women back 200 years. Ugh!

So many issues here.

Firstly, Matt Lauer is a dreadful interviewer. He (along with Oprah and Tyra Banks) need to study Barbara Walters in how to interview. A good interviewer will indeed set the tone at the beginning and ask the questions - then he or she needs to step back and STOP TALKING! I felt like Matt Lauer was interviewing Matt Lauer! I gather he does not like what Ann Coulter stands for but as an interviewer it's his job to let her finish a sentence! After several minutes, (and after Coulter pointing it out to him several times) he stopped interrupting her and let he speak. The first few minutes I was actually more irritated with Lauer than I was Coulter.

Besides, if he really doesn't like her, shouldn't he let her keep talking, in order to hang herself, as the expression goes?!

Now on to Coulter: most liberals don't like her and some conservatives don't either. She is extreme and a lot of people find 'extreme' anything to be worrisome. She also enjoys shock value, which is a poor man's way to get attention. If what she says is important enough, and valid enough, there should be no need for all the shock. We live in a shock-value culture. I think it's a bit played out.

Coulter is drawing statistics that have been around for sometime and are, in fact, valid in some instances. We can dance around it all we like, but children fare best in intact homes with moms and dads who treat each other with respect and who stay committed to the family. How come when Bill Cosby says this we all agree, but when Coulter says it, we don't? I happen to agree that an intact family is the ideal situation for kids. I said 'ideal'. I didn't grow up in a traditional family, I'm extremely aware that it's not always possible. In fact, I think children are better off if parents divorce than having an entire childhood listening to fighting, screaming...and worse. But come on folks - an intact family - that works - is a great thing.

The problem with Coulter is that she takes statistics with merit and turns them into weapons against women.

What is most disturbing to me is that all these "single mothers" as she refers to any mother without a man, are at least raising their children as best they can! In a perfect world, life would work out, men wouldn't die, men wouldn't abandon their children and we'd all have money to pay our bills. If Coulter is on the attack, why is she not shouting from the rooftops about the men of this country who simply impregnate and move on, as if they have no responsibility! Or who visit their kids a few times a year and think that buying them the occasional toy is being a 'daddy'. It takes two to make a baby. Should a woman take great care to protect herself against pregnancy if she's not ready to be a parent? Of course. But it just doesn't happen that way. I am left scratching my head as to why Coulter is attacking the women raising the kids, and not the men who abandon them.

And lastly, she loses any possible credibility she could have had by this childish and incessant "B. Hussein Obama" nonsense. Seriously. Our President Elect is not like G. Gordon Liddy or some other well known person who is actually called by his middle name while using his first initial. That stuff is just petty trash talk and she should be mortified at her behavior.

On another note (my last, I promise) doesn't Coulter come off as just a really angry woman? There is no softness or quiet intelligence to her. She simply bullies her way through interviews and her shifting from side to side and wringing of her hands show her to be a rather dissatisfied human being. It's one thing to be a 'warrior' for your cause and I know many don't like her, but Coulter is a shock-value loud mouth who undermines her own potential credibility (with some groups) with her behavior.

I know a lot of women -- co-workers, acquaintances, and dear friends -- and despite the fact that they are very varied in their thoughts and opinions, I don't know anyone that thinks particularly highly of Ann Coulter. What interests me, however, is that we find her opinion notable because she is a woman. I think that if other notable "shock-value loud-mouths" (great description, Susan!) spouted off like this about single mothers, we would just acknowledge it as more of the same and move on. But when she does it, we are even more offended. Clearly, we think she should know better.

She's in the minority right now. She has two options: Change, or hit harder. She's hitting harder.

She does it because it works for her. Her beliefs get people riled up, she gets attention, she sells books, she gets on the political talk shows, her beliefs get people riled up, and the cycle starts anew.

Even if reasonable people shake their heads in disbelief.

Having dated many single moms, I agree with Ann. I think it’s a shame you all get so easily offended rather than looking at the source of the problem: poor choices in breeding partners. If you all would take the necessary precautions, maybe Ann wouldn’t have to write a chapter that “offends” you all so much. And if it were only one child that each of you had, you might have a point. But most of you are repeat offenders many times over. But what everyone here is afraid to break the statistics out on is how many of our US single moms are black and repeat offenders. That certainly would get everyone’s panties in a wad. I also think many women have children due to the ticking of their biological clocks but never intend to actually be wives.