Why do single mothers have it so hard?
I have a three year old daughter who takes up most of my time. I am currently waiting for Can-I to accept us for day care assistance and right now the only person I can turn to for help is her father. But I literally have to beg and jump over hoops for him so he can help me watch his own daughter. All that I ask from him is one day of break from her a week on his days off. This allows me to study, catch up or work ahead on my homework. So when I asked him to take her for one day his response to me is, “I do have things I need to do too on my days off Sara!” Seriously, with that remark and the ignorant tone in his voice had me in tears because I was so mad!
I don’t think that it is fair for single mothers to be the main caretaker of her children when parent splits up. Why do men have the freedom to walk away and not take half of the responsibility for their children? The only thing they have to do is pay child support and that is if they do it. Other than that most of these fathers feel that they do not need to do anything else. Sure the court system may order visitation rights for the father to come see or take their child/children every other weekend, but that does not happen all the time. They will visit or take their child/children when they feel like it or when it is convenient to them.
My point is it does not matter what you are, where you go, and what you do “Feminism” is all around us. Women will always be taken for granted and treated unfairly. Men really do need to take a second look at women and take us seriously, because we are much stronger and smarter than they underestimated us to be. Of course we have to crawl before we can walk and jump through hoops and obstacles before we can be heard and become successful. Now a day there are many powerful women out there like Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton and Sara Palin just to name a few that may have been through what I am going through. These women fought their way to power and success.
