And THAAAAAAAT’s the issue!
May your blessings continue to flow for helping the youth!!!

I try to pay it forward. I'll give the game to anyone who listens, and have.
I had an honest chat with my little cousin before she left for school
because we all knew her mother wouldn’t (also divorced from someone in my family 
). Her grandmother literally looked at me and said “____, please talk to her. It looks like her mother is too busy trying to compete with younger women to train her daughter.”
But that’s my Princess so I told her I was already going to have a real chat with her whether her parents liked it or not

Pops won’t like it all from a woman’s perspective, but it will counter whatever BS her mother may have put in her head. I need her to lock down one of these enterprising young men @ her HBCU
That's my princess too, the only child I ever raised, ppl think me and my brother are her parents cuz she look just like me but ls. From the day she was born, me and moms been ON IT. Sent her to Harlem School of The Arts. Got her violin lessons. She found my pills when she was little and asked what they were and I told her they were vitamins to make sure I don't make little hers.

She stayed with us for summers so she witnessed me and my man and the lovely dynamic and wanted that for herself.
We had a planning session about five yrs ago where I laid out her options. She made her choice, a peer her own age, and made it happen. It's cute cuz they're both half ADOS/ half WI. I talked her through what she didn't get, but for the most part, we seem to have instilled it young cuz she the mama of her friend group, the one with the most sense, the one who solves problems.
She's amazing,
despite her mother, who got into finance on my mother's recommendation but never put a dime into her daughter's education. And the mom be hating on my niece (who looks NOTHING like or her side whatsoever). And
her mom hated on my mother. And her
sister, HBCU graduate, hated on me and almost got her ass whooped at a party by my homegirls. Veritable
generations of hate.
The beauty of extended family is that, even if your parents don't put you on,
somebody will.

To the bold, this needs to be put in the largest font. Is this how men should be gauging marriageability, a woman who has same generation relatives, bm, who marry? Do we have the keys? Should men filter for this instead of the broader 'girls who come from two parent households'?
@Wiseborn