A Child is a Reminder of the Father

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I watched a short video about women in one part of Malawi where a lot of them sold themselves in order to get fish from local fishermen to sell at the markets.

The video featured one young lady who had a daughter from one of the fishermen she sold herself to. She didn’t know where the father was.

She was a single mother of that baby girl whose father she will never ever find.

It made me sad.

There are many women in this world who have given birth to children and they don’t know who the fathers are, or there is no way to ever track the fathers down.

I feel sad because if it were me, I would definitely quickly get an abortion.

There is a Dutch film that I remember back in university when I attended a film screening and it was a film featuring a young lady who spent a night with a male friend (or acquaintance, I can’t remember clearly) and she got pregnant with his child but she decided to raise the child completely on her own.

She didn’t want to deal with having a man in her life, but she badly wanted a child.

I understood at the time why she did what she did.

At the time (and I think now), I didn’t want to think about someone telling me what to do. Even now, because I don’t see…