Positive opinions about single moms can only comes from an adult who has been raised by a single mom, so, without a father figure. The adult, still not mature enough to hold an honest opinion, which can be explainable because of the way he grew up and the misery of education he got, will try to make feel others superior peers that had a father in their house, that they got nothing more than him. He will try, without success, to be in an equal position as his peers, raised by a father and a mother, by suppressing the importance of the father figure.
Not only he will carry false opinions but will dive into more delusions, to outdo his inferiority complex, always omnipresent, in his adulthood. The adult, who's unconsciously hating his mother for not keeping his father around, will in fact show unconditional love and support to his mother and her decisions. The quest may go further than this and this time to prove his manhood. He would start lifting weight and even taking steroids to have this delusional shield and disguise of a man. To him, this is the only way to keep a women around because as influenced by his mother talks, his dad wasn't good and was "weak".
When the adult goes through experiences with other women, that are doomed to fails by logic, he comes to the conclusion that his muscles aren't enough and that he was wrong. Not wrong about why his father didn't keep his mother around and that the contrary operation must happen ( The mother should keep the man around) but about his vision about how a man must be. Another time, he will embrace another delusion and again, most of the time focused on his body ( Tattoo, MMA lessons).