Free Write - Super moms

I have always wanted to write about the difficulties that single mothers face every day. This is a topic that really catches my attention for two important reasons: one is because everyone has a sister, a friend, a co-worker or even our schoolmates who are single mothers, and we see them daily doing their lives like any other person, but we never get to imagine or recognize all the effort that takes them to get ahead and try to lead a balanced life; the other reason is because a lot of people think single mothers are a bad thing for society getting carried away by prejudice as a kind of discrimination. My best friend has raised her daughter completely alone for the past eleven years. She and I have been almost like sisters since we were five years old. When she turned seventeen, she realized that she was expecting her first child and had not even finished high school. She was actually just a teenager. Soon, we begin to notice that our lives started to be very different from each other. The first stone that was crossed in the way was the fact that she had to leave school due to the criticism and being harshly pointed out by the other students, and to make the things worse her boyfriend and father of her daughter soon let her know that he did not want responsibilities at that moment, leaving her completely alone so immediately after his baby was born she had to search for a job.  I have seen my friend divide her time into three different jobs to give her daughter the best future, currently she has just finished college and I’m so proud of her because being a mom it’s not easy but being a single mom requires super powers.