The burden of being a single mother is not something I will ever know, and when I use the term burden, I am not making a child out to be an encumbrance. A child is innocent, and the source of immense joy in a mother’s life. I use the term burden because when a mother is addicted to drugs, or alcohol, her life is a burden to her child and herself. This is not a judgment, it is simply a result of substance abuse and the many sad truths that accompany it. One of those truths being the difficulty for an addicted mother to keep her children from going into protective services and not being able to see them. A second truth being that alcohol and substance abuse often hold people back, and prevent them from realizing their goals of independence, financial stability and of course raising their child in a healthy and loving environment.… Read the rest »
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