I Stand Here Ironing by Tilli Olsen

We can see here the classic mother oppressed by personal and environmental circumstances that laments the choices she has made as a mother, we can see her revealing to us the readers the heartbreaking story of her life as a mother that some mother still live today. The time spent searching for a job and actually working, night shifts and over time just to pay for a good day-care for their children is time wasted that could have been used into raising their children on their own, time that will never come back once lost. Sometimes first time mothers don't have the experience or just don't have the knowledge and try to take advice from the worst kinds of person there is, their kids end up in day-cares  that are worse than prisons, the children get abused or neglected. A lot of single mothers go through this same issue when the father decides to just leave the house  for unknown reasons just like my "dear" father who decided to leave my mother when me and my brother were still little kids, 4 (me) and 5 (my brother) to be more specific. Between studying and working, my mother had little time for us but she would never leave us at a day-care for she had worked at one and knew how other employees treated the kids over there, instead she left us with our grandma who treated us kindly and thanks to that neither my older brother nor me suffer nor anyone neglected us.