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Men with kids are not boyfriend material

I am not one to judge, but if I was dating, I would avoid men with children [Courtesy, Freepik]

Co-parenting in Kenya is a war. It should be peaceful but it isn't. While the rest of the world was evolving into proper adults with good manners we might have all missed the memo. Here, we hate the people we had children with, and we wish them nothing but doom.

Here men quit jobs to avoid paying child support and women go on social media to ask whether they can remove the baby daddy's name from the birth certificate.

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