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Why single mums with girls are hot cakes

Nowadays, on average, every family has a single mother or one has been married into the family.

Once upon a time in Kenya a child born out of wedlock was a sure way to have a woman ‘excommunicated.’ Fathers in the village lost their marbles and mothers died a slow death when their Form Two daughters started acting funny in the morning. An unexpected pregnancy, consigned many teenage mothers to bad marriages, prostitution and destitution, just to escape the wrath of furious fathers.

Nowadays, on average, every family has a single mother or one has been married into the family.

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