As Stigma Eases, Single Motherhood In Mexico Rises Carrie Kahn - NPR.org
go to original May 14, 2013

... More unmarried women than ever in Mexico are having children. Nationally, one-fourth of all households in Mexico are headed by a single mother. In big urban centers like Mexico City, it's as high as 35 percent.

With so many women heading up households, the stigma once associated with having children out of wedlock is fading and single mothers are no longer hidden away or spoken about in whispers or as social outcasts.

Beatriz Santa Maria Monjaraz, who heads the Institute for Women in Mexico City, says she's notice the dramatic increase in just the last five to seven years.

"We don't like to call them single mothers," Monjaraz says. "We call them women heads of households, because that is what they are doing.

These women heads of households are the sole wage earners in tens of thousands of homes in this city.

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