The Cultural Myth Of Single Mothers

Professor Hedrick
English 115 February 8, 2013
Single Mothers
The dream of many women is to have the perfect family, which is with a husband and their children. This is the perfect family for many women, but at these times a lot of women are single mothers because their relationships do not work out or maybe because the partners do not share love each other. Nowadays, people do not follow the tradition to stay virgin till marriage and now women have sex without notice what can happen. At these times there are more single mothers than married, and is more difficult for single mothers than for those who are married to educate their children because they do not have the support of one husband. I can’t say that I know this because my own
One of her children is five years old, the second one is four and the last one is two years old. My cousin faced the myth that single mothers can’t have a normal life. Many single moms do not fit in with the cultural myth of ideal family because they do not have a husband with them.
One of the things that single mothers lose is their social life. I can say this because my cousin is one of those mothers who lost her social life because she has three children and nobody take care of them just because she want to go out with friends. In the past, when my cousin did not have any children, she used to hang out and travel with her friends. She used to go everywhere with us, but now she can’t because she has to take care of her children. That is why she lost her social life and the opportunity of know different places and different people. Now, after she had her children, she is in her mother’s home all the time, now she has to do what a real mother supposed to do in the house. For
As a result, she always needs her mother’s help because is the only support she has. For example, her mother takes care of the children when she has to go to work because she does not have any babysitter who helps her with the kids. Sometimes when my cousin does not have time to do laundry her mother is the one who helps her with that. Anything my cousin needs there is always her mom to help her because a mother never leaves her children alone, and that is what my cousin’s mother is doing with her and her grandchildren. That is why I can say that single mothers need extra help than married mothers because single mother has to take care of the children and work at the same time which is a lot of work for them. Family’s help is so important to my cousin because she is having a disease because her children. Her relatives help her on taking care of errands what she supposed to do, but she could not make them. She feels relax because she is getting the support of somebody else. Because of so many personal problems, she is feeling like going down. Sometimes she thinks all kinds of bad thoughts because of the worries that are related to being a single mother, and that is why support from the family is very important in her life. There are a lot of single mothers that can do things by themselves, but most of them need the support of someone else as the help of their mothers. For my cousin has been really