...same? Yesterday, I was at the store and thought I'd buy a novel to pass the time...and since it'd been awhile since I'd read a romance, I'd go for that...
However, I was just stunned to see how many of the mass market romance novels (Harlequin, Silhouette) seem to feature pregnant women or unwed mothers on the covers and the books are baby themed/titled as it were. To me, it seems to be sending out the wrong message here.
As a divorced mother who raised a child alone from the time that child was 6, I don't think that lone parenting is particularly 'romantic' and I also feel it's a bit irresponsible for these publishers to put it out there that single parents/unwed moms will be 'rescued' by some tall dark and handsome and rich man and then get to live happily ever after. More often than that does not happen in real life, and that time reading that claptrap would be better spent getting an education and trying to get ahead on a job.
So anyone else out there think such novels may be encouraging people (teens in particular) to put the cart before the horse as it were in the belief that it will all work out in the end and they'll be 'happily ever after' like in the books?
p.s. I left the store empty handed....
However, I was just stunned to see how many of the mass market romance novels (Harlequin, Silhouette) seem to feature pregnant women or unwed mothers on the covers and the books are baby themed/titled as it were. To me, it seems to be sending out the wrong message here.
As a divorced mother who raised a child alone from the time that child was 6, I don't think that lone parenting is particularly 'romantic' and I also feel it's a bit irresponsible for these publishers to put it out there that single parents/unwed moms will be 'rescued' by some tall dark and handsome and rich man and then get to live happily ever after. More often than that does not happen in real life, and that time reading that claptrap would be better spent getting an education and trying to get ahead on a job.
So anyone else out there think such novels may be encouraging people (teens in particular) to put the cart before the horse as it were in the belief that it will all work out in the end and they'll be 'happily ever after' like in the books?
p.s. I left the store empty handed....