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[SIZE=6]Marriage on rocks: Many women just want a child, not a man
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By Peter Muiruri | 20h ago | 8 min read
A number of women want children but do not want to get married.
As a young college girl, Mercy’s* dream was to meet a well-off man, probably in his 30s, settle down and start a family. Her dream was to raise two boys and a girl.
But that was not to be. As she pursued higher education, including a doctorate, her age began to catch up with her. Then she secured a well-paying job that enabled her to buy a home and a car. “These are the things that make women get married, right?” she poses.
Still, Mercy wanted to have children and devised a foolproof plan. She hooked up with a family man who just wanted to have a ‘good time’ without any strings attached. What the man did not know was that all Mercy wanted was getting pregnant.
“I gave birth to his child but he still has no idea that he made me pregnant. I am okay with the way things developed. Why buy a cow if all you want is milk?”
Joyce Mwai, a 34-year entrepreneur is a mother of a 10-year-old boy. She is single and does not plan to get married. Just like Mercy*, she proceeded to campus after high school and secured herself a well-paying job after which she invested on a fashion business.
As she was turning 23, she felt that she needed to get a child but the idea of getting married was not one she would welcome. Clear in her mind on what she wanted in terms of a family, she hooked up with a man she liked and whom she had dated, got pregnant and went on living single…