You know when you’re drunk and decide to ring an ex and remind them you still loved them? Now, the rule is DON’T. Sleep it off and when you wake up, you’ll be thankful.

It’s the take-a-deep-breath-and-stop rule. It covers drunkenness. But also covers anger. Take a step back recover your rationality and then have your say.

I am angry.

Up until today, Undaunted was keeping its powder dry on #MarRef. I am going to vote Yes. I wasn’t going to preach. You are all adults. You all know love comes in many, many forms (some guy called JC told me that)

I wasn’t going to preach.

Then I got angry.

It was around 1.17pm today when I heard her voice. She was speaking at the Mothers and Fathers Matter press conference. You know them. God fearin’ folk who want to save us from ourselves. As well as prayers, they love to use statistics to get their point across. Debating skills 101. You know the type.

Today’s killer survey was presented by Kate Bopp. Our Kate was ready. She knew it would not go down well. Forget any ACTUAL single parent family you know, Kate had the stats.

Kids from single families will be nothing but trouble - axe-killers, corrupt bankers, weird gay people, chronic under-achievers, cynical media types... You name it. Children from single families are in there. The stats prove it.

How dare she!

How dare she question parenting skills of thousands of parents who find themselves bringing up children on their own? No doubt she will hide behind her precious survey and find weasel words saying how ‘brave’ and ‘amazing’ some single parents are.

I am proud to say I was brought up in a single parent household. I’ve written about my own amazing mother here.

Mrs Bopp would feign unctuous amazement at our ‘achievement’ but still stick to her guns.  

Our family wouldn’t really matter to her anyway I suppose.