“Single mother”, “single mother”, “single mother”, appointing a woman to head a single-parent family is already a challenge as their profiles are so different. Some suggest the less stigmatizing expression: “parent assuming sole responsibility for the child”. But, here again, some people protest against the invisibility of the massive proportion of women concerned.
Talking about a single-parent family is almost certain to mean a single woman managing the daily lives of her children (in 83% of cases). From the widow to the wife abandoned by the father of her offspring to the single woman who chose to conceive a child through assisted reproduction and raise him alone, what do they have in common? A smell of sulfur, with prejudices that stick to them and which resurface in times of crisis. So much so that a question arises: are single mothers dangerous?
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