Joan hopes that single mothers out there will not be afraid to seek help from others.

When Joan posted a photo on Facebook to welcome her daughter into the world, a common response was: “Where’s the father?”

In the course of her pregnancy, Joan (not her real name), 42, lost the support of the father of her child and her source of income and faced a great deal of negativity about being a single mother.

But while difficult, Joan’s journey has been fruitful because it has given her her favourite person in the world, her daughter, who is three years old this year.

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