In response to this thread https://www.nairaland.com/4482658/why-lot-single-mothers/4#67263068 that genuinely seeks to know why there are many single mothers out there these days, I was able to come up with 7 cogent reasons and answers to the query and below are my submissions

1. Poverty - this is the genesis and the bane of most nasty things in our society today. When a guy is poor and advancing in age, seeing that he is unable to cater for a child but he desires a successor or posterity, he might decide to take shortcut, look for a girl to impregnate and knowing fully well that he can neither afford marriage nor take care of the child, he leaves the lady a baby mama. Then for the poverty ravaged ladies, to them the only and easiest way to make ends meet is to offer their bodies for sale and at that time since poverty has blocked their thinking faculty, anything can go, sex with or without contraceptive is no longer an issue for them and they take in on the process and eventually become single mother. Also if age is not also on their side and they also desire posterity, they will look for any available man to make them a single mother

2. Lack of self discipline from the man and woman - this is another serious issue and the cause of single motherhood. When a man and woman cannot discipline themselves to control their libido or reject romantic advances hook, line and sinker, they often go wild in promiscuous sex and they end up making babies with single mothers.

3. Societal pressure especially on the women - because of how the society sees ladies that are advancing and not married, they feeble hearted ladies are usually unable to withstand the pressure from the society and they only end up getting desperate and looking for randy men to just father a baby with them and leave them single mother

4. ill manners - ill manners in wedlock is one of the causes of divorce.. When the manners become so toxic and that both couples can no longer tolerate each other, they end up divorcing and giving out single mothers

5. Poor upbringing - yes when your parents fail in their duties of raising up a morally sound kids, they children end up becoming ignorant and they end up engaging themselves in unwholesome sexual act with their peers that can lead to pregnancy and a baby and a single mother

6. Societal failure - there is no gainsaying that we live in societies that have failed in most of their duties. When society indulge in seeing men and women go astray and do all sorts of things without proper cautioning and serious attempts to set things straight up, men and women end up indulging themselves in sexual folly since the society no longer frowns at most of the salacious act but rather encourage them in subtle manners and turning blind eyes to them, sexual promiscuity will definitely be high as we are seeing today and it can easily end up to breeding single mothers.

7. Lack of chastity - When people have finally dropped every atom of morals and religious sanity in them, becoming single mothers now turns to a thing of pride and boastfulness

I concur