Contemporary Issues for Single Mothers

Introduction

The traditional idea of a happy family necessarily implies the presence of mothers, fathers and children. For the vast majority of people is such a family is traditional and desirable. However, life is diverse, there are families in which for various reasons, no children, or the role of both parents to be performed by one of the adults. It so happened that after divorce the children often remain with their mother, so is there so many single mothers. Their spare, help them, they are admired, they condemned a bit.

Until a few decades ago, an informed choice women become a single mother seemed absurd. Now this is no longer a rarity. In big cities, where life goes by its own rules, where the boundaries between the masculine and feminine practically wiped out, many women decide to have children, regardless of whether it can find a suitable partner or not. Typically, this is pretty adult women were held, which can give a child is not just a roof over their heads, but are ready to take responsibility for his welfare These women do not need the alimony or support from the government, they rely only on themselves. Unfortunately, no one is immune from the troubles and disappointments. When people get married, they are hoping for the best, but change over time and the people themselves and life values, the spouses are not on the road. No matter who becomes the initiator of the gap, because for whatever reason, it is much more important than the fact that the child is deprived? Mothers have to assume the role of father in child rearing.

Issues Influenced by the the novel “Housekeeping”

In the novel “Housekeeping”, Marilyn Robinson provides a sense of women, the space, and the domestic constraints of society. The story crosses several generations of women and their lives in a single house in a town named Fingerbone. Housekeeping revolves around the themes of loss, transience, and the social construction of family and domesticity, particularly as it applies to the traditional roles and relationships of women. Loss, which is pervasive in Ruth's life and that of her ill-fated family, is reflected in the series of abandonments and tragedies that define her formative experiences, from the deaths of her grandparents to the rejections of her mother, her sister, and the residents of Fingerbone (Robinson, 13). The theme of loss is interconnected with a focus on change, the fundamental impermanence of life, and the inevitability of deterioration and death. As a metaphor, housekeeping signifies the futility of human efforts to deny the disruptive power of nature and the tenuous state of human habitation and social order.

These days we find many single mothers. Being a single mother is not easy; they have to go through a lot of pressure raising their children. Apart from disciplining and caring for the children unlike other married mothers, single mothers have to go through many other challenges. They have to face a lot sarcastic statements and unwanted questions relating ...