What is more wonderful than a loving mother with a child who is smiling and feeling protected?

 

We are more preoccupied with seeing the evil and the ugly, from the perspective of evil and ugly rather than from the perspective of truth. We speak too little about single mothers and their struggle to survive. Surviving not only materially but spiritually, as well. People talk very much these days about girls who are hunting rich husbands and about the necessity of prenuptial contracts. They talk about women who want things which do not belong to them. I don't deny that this is a reality, but single mothers don't belong to the above mentioned category of women. They belong to different statistics. This is true everywhere, Great Britain, and Romania.

 

Stephen Jenkins is the director of the Institute for Social and Economical Research and the president of International Association Council for Research on Income and Wealth. He concluded recently that divorce makes men, especially fathers much richer. Their income increases considerably, by as much as a third, while women suffer severe financial penalties. Their average income can be reduced by a fifth, and remain like that for years.

 

More than that, in Romania, women pay taxes on love and naivety. For various reasons, being over trusting and helpful, many of these women accept these mean men's proposition, which is to pass the ownership of their common proprieties to a third person, a friend or a relative. Then comes the blow, that is, the divorce, and there is nothing left to share out. That is one of the explanations of why so many women remain single without a roof over their heads. It is not because they were lazy or profiteering, and did not work. Rather, it was because they were expecting to live on their husbands income. Society has to wake up. There is nothing more wonderful than a mother with a child who smiles as he feels protected. These single mothers have suffered many blows and disappointments. Let us not disappoint them, too. Let us help them to have at least a roof over their heads. The rest will be done by them and by God.