Single_Mother.

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Single Mother Single mother is a term that I have never liked, I guess moralistic culture of the fifties, or worse, nineteenth century style opera heroines. A term that carries with it the transgression of a law, in fact the term "girl" is not opposed to "woman" as one would expect, but with the euphemism typically hypocritical of our society, "wife", married mother, that respect for the law has the right not to have other names that specify his situation, just mother, since the word "normally" inclusive of the other condition, that of a married woman. So it happened to me, having had a son in twenty years (and having a companion) to be called "single mother", although I was not alone. A single mother is, therefore, a single mother, regardless of age, and a young unmarried mother, regardless of whether you have a partner or not. Frankly, I consider it an outdated term, to confine the annals of the gossip columns of the fifties and sixties, when Mina was scandal, being pregnant by a married man. If the term goes, the problem remains. If mothers are young teenage mothers to be distinguished from some features, are approached by a number of common themes that affect both groups. Teenage mothers are currently in about 1% of all women who give birth, would double if we consider the incidence of voluntary interruption of pregnancy among adolescents. Many experts shout to the "pandemic", alarmed by the growing phenomenon in Western countries, particularly the United States. Also in the United States it seems that the phenomenon is due to the high divorce rate, the increase of abuses and rapes of children and adolescents, the recent trend to consider a child as a "status symbol", the need in times of identity and landmarks increasingly unstable, to have an affection "stable" from which "start afresh". Studies and research are quite common in the United States, while very fragmentary data are available in our country, and as always in these cases, moralistic interpretations and guilt-ridden reign. Just think of the idea, entirely without foundation, that the main problem of teenage mothers is the fact of having had a pregnancy "junk", "unexpected", random, when we know that as much as 50% of children are born " unexpected ". It is therefore not the "unexpected" to embarrass the teenage mother but of the social and psychological motivations, which affect the representation of herself as a mother, on his development as free and independent woman, working on their future, and its relationship with their children. Also according to experts, teenage mothers are more likely than mothers over twenty years of leaving school early, job difficulties, abuse and ill-treatment of children, separation and divorce from the boy with whom they have had the baby, and even having children with genetic abnormalities in a statistically greater of women over twenty years. From a psychological point of view the risk of incurring a postpartum depression quadrupled,


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Single_Mother. by WILLIAM MOORE - Issuu