The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents.

The only reminder one woman has of her birth parents is a medallion of the Virgin Mary that was attached to her diaper when she was presented from a home for unwed mothers to her adoptive parents.

The unwed woman from Kollam, who is employed with a private firm in Kochi, delivered a baby boy in the bathroom of the private hostel on Sunday morning. The matter came to light when hostel mates ...

Whether or not a girl does marry the child’s father—and relatively few do—she seems to emerge with a sounder sense of values, a conviction that the shame of unwed pregnancy is not the end of ...

Hundreds of Catholic nuns took to the streets on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, to call on the government and other groups to protect the rights of unwed mothers and abuse victims. The nuns ...

Hundreds of Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka took to the streets on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, to call on the government ...

However, as preexisting social discrimination against unwed mothers still remains, many face an uphill battle in actually attaining these rights that should be due to all women.

MP Louis Ng called for single unwed parents to be given the cash component of the Baby Bonus, the Parenthood Tax Rebate as well as the Working Mother’s Child Relief. “The cash is a lifeline for them a ...