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Let’s put the issue of “women’s empowerment” in some perspective, and along with it, the issue of single mothers. If you are a woman, no matter where you are, you are sitting on a chair that was most likely designed and built by men. Men drew the design, chopped the wood, transported the lumber and…

Someone brought the issue to my attention of this young woman who became an unwed mother in Egypt. I remember in my own lifetime when it was highly controversial in the US for a woman to have a child out of wedlock, though of course, it happened frequently. In the 1980s there was a serious…