“We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child.” Jennifer Aniston I couldn’t agree more. I am not an actress. I am not a model. I am not a celebrity of any kind. I am a single woman . I have no children . Like Aniston, I too want to participate in the larger conversation on how society views women. I particularly want to focus on the societal view of single women. And like Aniston, I too am fed up. F ed up with the prevalent societal belief that a woman is incomplete without a mate. F ed up with friends, fami ly, co-workers, casual a cquainta nces insistent on “fixing” my single status. This sends the message that a woman should not be single. That it is unnatural. Fo r a variety of reasons, I am a woman in my forties who has never married and is childfree . My single, non-mom status is shocking, contrary,...
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