The Single Mothers Association is established in Turkey to address the challenges faced by the country’s approximately 3.5 million single mothers. The association aims to raise awareness about their issues and support their economic and intellectual growth.
The Single Mothers Association was established on March 18th in Turkey to address the challenges faced by the country’s approximately 3.5 million single mothers. The association aims to raise awareness about their issues and support their economic and intellectual growth.
This association is committed to comprehensively addressing the concerns of single mothers and will provide services in various areas to help them achieve a stronger position within society. The association held its inaugural event at Bahçeşehir University on March 21st and includes founders who are not only single mothers but also advocates in this field.
The association strives to find solutions to the problems encountered by single mothers and aims to support them in areas such as housing, education, health, and social rights. Moreover, it seeks to empower single mothers both psychologically and economically, encouraging them to become more informed parents and ensuring their children grow up in better conditions.
Traditional nuclear families are decreasing
Speaking at the event on March 21st, the founder of the association, Serap Yelkenci, stated, “The most urgent issues that need to be addressed for single mothers are: feeling abandoned, lack of access to thematic information, and economic conditions. We established the Single Mothers Association to solve these problems and to make life easier for single mothers.”
Prof. Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız, a faculty member at Bahçeşehir University, highlighted divorce rates in Turkey and around the world:
“There is a global trend of decreasing traditional nuclear families. Divorce rates are increasing worldwide. Men tend to remarry after divorce. In Turkey, divorce rates have doubled recently, while marriage rates have decreased. We also observe an increase in single-parent households in Turkey. Of these, 80% are comprised of single mothers. A significant portion of single mothers are also divorced.”