What is it like to be a single mom?

While I was waiting my turn at the clinic to see the doctor today, I saw a woman returning from the restroom with a sample urine in her hands. I soon got called into the doctor’s room and while he was examining my condition, a nurse entered the room, setting a pregnancy kit on the doctor’s table. I couldn’t help my curiousity and took a peek at the results. It was positive. Surely it belonged to the lady that I saw outside the doctor’s room with the urine sample, I thought. 

When I was done with the examination, I walked out of the doctor’s room and took a seat to wait for my medication to be dispensed. My eyes fell on the lady who had just taken her pregnancy test. She looked very young and vibrant, somewhere in her 20s, I would think. I then scanned her fingers and saw no sign of any wedding band. “Oh-uh!” was the first thing that came to my mind. Anyway, she got called into the doctor’s office and they talked very loudly, or maybe the walls are just too thin. All of us outside could hear them talking about when her last period was, and when her baby is due! 

I don’t know what else happened because I quickly took my medication, paid and left the clinic. But my thoughts never left me. I kept wondering if the girl is in fact married, and if she wasn’t, I wondered what must be going on in her head right then when she was told she’s pregnant. Obvious choices to choose from would be to marry the father of the child, be a single mom if marriage is not a good solution, and in the worst case scenario, she could make the painful decision not to have the baby. 

My thoughts then turned to thinking about women having babies out of wedlock and being single mothers. What must it be like to choose to be a single mom? It’s not easy, that’s for sure. I know of some strong-willed women who are single mothers and I salute how they uphold themselves. Though the society now does not regard single mothers as outcasts the way it was back in the olden days, many still frown upon the idea of someone being a single mother. People still gossip and talk about such women and it is not easy to get pass this. 

Can you imagine how strong a woman must be in order to be a single mother, not just to deal with how others judge her, but also to bring up a child on her own. Bringing up a child is already not an easy task with both doting parents, what more with just a single parent. Instead of being judged, I think these women should be respected for their bravery to embrace the difficult path ahead of them. At least they had the guts to decide on raising the baby and did not resort to the so-called easy way out by choosing abortion from the beginning.

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