Friday's Times devoted a full page to the challenges of single motherhood and the rights these mothers have. Single motherhood is indeed a hard road; single moms and their children run a much higher risk of poverty than moms who are married.
We should help those mothers who find themselves with a child but without a husband. We can reduce the frequency of such difficult circumstances by teaching our youth to save sex for marriage and to keep sex only inside marriage. This avoids both unmarried motherhood and STDs. It also develops character during the single life, as well as the opportunity to develop work and/or educational skills to support a family. Two often overlooked advantages of saving sex for marriage are much lower divorce rates for those men and women who were married as virgins, and greater sexual satisfaction within marriage for those women who saved their sexual debut for their wedding night.
A proverb says "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". We should aid those young women who find themselves with child but not a father to provide. At the same time, we should teach our children by our actions and our words to save sex for marriage. This will drastically reduce unwed motherhood, and will lead to stronger couples, families, and a stronger Swazi nation.
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