Renowned journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has surprisingly come to the defence of single mothers following massive backlash they face on Twitter.
Taking to social media, Hopewell said there is an unhealthy desire he has noticed on Twitter of people attacking single mothers.
He said many women did not become single women by choice instead people should be questioning why the father went awol.
Chin’ono said:
Most single mothers don’t choose to raise their kids alone, some of them are victims of useless and irresponsible men.
Treat each person or single mother as an individual and not a group, and deal with their own personal circumstances instead of tainting every single mother, many of whom didn’t become single mothers out of choice, and many who have brought up decent human beings.
If it helps, Barack Obama was brought up by a single mother, Bob Marley was brought up by a single mother. By stigmatising single mothers, we are also stigmatising the kids they are bringing up. We should be asking why the fathers of these kids went AWOL.
