SINGLE MOTHERS RAISE THE STRONGEST KIDS

Single mothers fight, each day of their lives, especially in a culture like ours where they’re either looked down upon or sympathized with. They’d rather face the waters alone than doing it with someone who goes running back to the shore as soon as the waters get rough. Some broken, some betrayed, some abandoned, these women have always stood invincible throughout history, raising some of the toughest kids the world has seen.

- Rifa Deka

Marie Curie for instance, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, raised two young daughters alone after her husband died in an accident and one of her daughters, Irène Joliot-Curie, grew up to co-win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband for their work on radioactivity.

J.K. Rowling, an author who rose to fame with her famous ‘Harry Potter’ series, wrote the first four books in the series as a single mother. She is now the president of Gingerbread, an organization that works with single parents and helps their children find resources and programs to succeed.

India’s first female Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi who worked hard to make our country self-sufficient, entrusted a sense of duty and responsibility in both her sons, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi, who both became politicians. Rajiv Gandhi went on to become the Prime Minister of our country. Although controversial, this woman was a symbol of power and would exude confidence.