Betty Irabor, Publisher of Genevieve Magazine, dropped some words of wisdom on Instagram for Single mothers.Read it below
Toast to single mothers.
I
would really love to raise a toast to all single mums out there. I was
raised by a single mum and believe me, I know what it is for a woman to
be both mum and dad to a child…. Mum raised 4 of us by being
resourceful; in the day time, she worked at Nigeria Tobacco company and
nighttime at NITEL (I don’t know what it was called then) and in between
she was a seamstress.When
a prospective affluent husband/step dad came along she refused his
marriage proposal and a chance to have a life because the package he
offered her didn’t include us; her children! He wanted her exclusive of
us, perhaps he wanted her to drop us off at an orphanage or something
like that. Of course it was no deal for mum!!! Who would accept such an
offer any way?
It’s
not a walk in the park for single mothers and I think every man who
deliberately makes a single mother of a woman because he cannot stand up
to his responsibilities deserves a special day of reckoning before God.Here’s
toasting to every woman doubling up as mom and dad to their kids
because of a man who isn’t man enough to to be a real dad. – Betty
Irabor
