Empower Single Parents Analysis

The Ways To Empower Single Parents In Term Of Financial

Life as a family is much different today than what it used to be. Supposedly, the mothers role is staying at home to manage the home and children while the fathers will go out to earn money in order to support the family. However, nowadays it is common for children to be raised by just one of their parents and the majority of single- parent families are headed by women. In this situation, there will be lot of problems faced by the mothers who will have to deal with emotional problems, time management problems especially financial problems. “ financial independence is what single mothers are struggling to achieve ” said Pn Hasiah Haniza Abd Wahab the chairperson of the Islamic Single Mother Association for the federal territory and the state of Selangor in her speech. This problem is due to lack experience in working as they fully depend on their husband when they are still
As we know these single mothers are normally early married women, therefore, they lack specialized job skills, as well as education required to get a proper employment. This is one of the factors, for the single mother to have low-income household. In order to empower them to get a stable life, the government need to establish more free training center such as Giat Mara Institution and college comunity that can train single mothers in a specific field, for example sewing, cooking, business and so on. This is very useful for this single mothers as they can use the experience gained from the center to start running a small business as their part time. Besides that, the government also can provide loan and site for this needy people. As we know, it is difficult for anyone to approve any kind of loan if the debtors are low-income earners, therefore by providing this kind of facilities, the government can help the mothers (by