June 24, 2014

Deidre Singleton
P.O. Box 39877
Philadelphia, PA. 19107

Ph: 804-304-8649

Email: deidre_singleton@hotmail.com

To Whomever Concerned at Aiken Standard,
	Enclosed I send copies of letters I sent out to various entities in the Aiken community on behalf of my posterity. Go to www.2singletonboyz.com for more information regarding my sons’ family dysfunction. Please see some of my postings in FB intended for my sons (send out a friend request to Reginald-Terrence Mottsington). I offer my services to write an opinion column for your paper. I can write on whatever topic you deem opportune for addressing significant issues of our time, especially youth guidance material. 

	I am a mother accused  (by my baby-daddy’s mother) of having abandoned my children when I left them with it’s son (the late Dr Reginald T. Singleton) a 38 year-old Medical Doctor and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army (the children’ s father). My wish is that those within my sons’ community keep an open mind regarding my sons’ experiences (all that glitters isn’t gold). Just as human errors are made in criminal court (innocent people are incarcerated); family court is no exception they are prone to human error also. I ask that those within the communities in which my sons live, play and are schooled be proactive on their behalves as they become independent young adults (they are presently ages 17 and 15) by recognizing they are at risk for maladaptive social behaviors such as drug use/abuse, promiscuity, internal rage, low self-esteem and other self destructive behaviors. A community’s proactivity can be as passive as just being cognizant of the similarity of my children’s grief to that of those youngsters engaged in mass shootings or other heinous crimes across our nation over the past several years; or the community can be as active as helping to create better laws for protecting children during their parents’ divorce and holding adults responsible for the deviant behaviors of their children.
	
	"If your child grows up to be a doctor but is greedy and uncaring, that advanced degree counts for very little, for you would have failed miserably in nurturing a true human being “ Jeremy Willinger, (http://www.etiquetteoutreach.com). elizabeth legare Singleton failed its 1st born child and only son (my baby-daddy), in having done-so, it is now failing it’s grandsons. I will NOT sit idly-by. 
	I was summoned to Aiken in 2012, I came with “bells on”, I “ruffled feathers”, and they heard me “roar”! If I am summoned again due to my recent activity (sending letters out into the community) I will NOT come quietly. These are my “footprints in the sand.”  

Sincerely,

Deidre