Being a single Mother
Being a single Mother can be frightening.
Because you have loved someone, the joy of a new life starting within you is yours.
However, what is not yours at times -
- The support of the partner with whom you made this new life
- The support of your family
- The support or understanding of your community
- The support of your spiritual worship community
- Funding for your education so you can get a good job
- Financial support
Told to leave the Family Unit
At times, girls and women who are expectant mothers are told to leave the family unit.
So, in the hour of their and their little one's greatest need, they can find themselves cut off from their basic food and shelter, and the emotional support every new mother needs.
What can we do?
What we can do:
- Support new mothers
- Encourage men to stand by their partners and support their new children
- Encourage families, communities and worship communities to stand by their new mothers, and welcome the new baby into society; 'It takes a Village to Raise a Child' as Former Senator Hillary Clinton affirmed (1)
- Help support a mom and her new baby in our street, village, town or city
- Offer good employment to an expectant mother
- Don't overwork a pregnant mother
- Invite a new mother the option to breastfeed her baby at work; husbands sometimes bring the baby in to work in Africa. Breastfeeding is the optimum way, if possible for the mother, to feed the child
- Give a pregnant mom a good break and an area where she can rest during the day while at work
- Why not consider opening a creche at your place of work for the infants and young children of your working mothers?
- Donate food, funds and clothing to groups that support single mothers
- Ensure your pregnant moms at work get time off and have the funding for good ante-natal clinic care
Baby in the womb, father out the door
It is a sad fact that, many times, as soon as the baby comes into the womb, the father to be goes out the door.
It is hard for an expectant mother to lose the love of her life, his companionship and the support he could/should have been.
It is even harder to bring up a child alone.
Let us link hands in our global village
Let us link hands in our global village and support the single moms in our community.
Why not financially adopt the child of a single mom and pay for the education of her child?
What better way to change a life than to offer the next generation excellent education which will help the single mom and her baby the chance to beat the poverty trap.
ARE YOU A SINGLE MOM? HERE IS HELP
(1)http://www.happinessonline.org/LoveAndHelpChildren/p12.htm
With thanks to happinessonline.org and thelifeofasinglemom.com
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