Disgusting abuse of lone parents

HOW did Kevin Myers’s column on single mothers and their children get past the Irish Times editorial process?

How could they possibly have deemed it balanced to allow an article that unjustly and without the support of facts demonise an entire section of our community?

Bastards, mothers of bastards, the unmotivated, the confused, the backward and the lazy! Referring to the USA as the great example of the type of society we should be emulating?