The first question is how does an African American woman stay true to her faith while remaining single and childless in spite of the expectations of society as a whole? People are social in nature. According to Collins, "Single groups in the church are most helpful avoiding matchmaking and dating, and are led by mature, sensitive, preferably unmarried leaders."(502) Single groups are useful whereas they go on retreats, conferences, a variety of trips, girlfriends night out, and focusing on the word of God and prayer; asking God to take away those fleshy desires until he places the person with their soul mate. Also, the single woman should be open and honest about her abstinence and choice to remain single until she changes her mind.
To help a single mother of any race reconcile her desires to be a mother within the context of the Christian faith, the writer as the counselor would as Brenner states, "its goal is growth in one's relationship …show more content…
Meaning from the beginning Society always has pointed fingers and looked at women differently when caught in the act of sin or pregnant out of wedlock. For example, the woman caught in adultery and the woman at the well. Never was the man mention only the act of the woman. It is easy for the woman to be exposed because of the evidence of the wrong, sinful act which is the baby.
To sum it up, the sinful act started in the beginning with Adam and Eve. When Eve blamed by Adam for offering him the fruit in Genesis 3:12, "The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate." The blame always felled on the woman and not the