Membership
Membership
Categories of Single Mothers
| 1. | Widowed | Death of the spouse |
| 2. | Divorced | Legally divorced |
| 3. | Separated | Separated by mutual agreement or forced separation as a result of physical abuse/foreign wives |
| 4. | Abandoned or Absconding husbands | Left in a lurch with or without children or Husbands not staying with wife as working elsewhere for longer than 3 months |
| 5. | Unwed mothers | Those with no means of support or no family support |
| 6. | Incapacitated husbands | With serious illness or bedridden |
| 7. | Husbands in Institutions | Prison, Drug rehab centers, Mental health Asylums |
| 8. | Husbands overseas | Husbands working overseas for more than three years. |
| 9. | Unwed females | Never married, incapacitated, sick, abandoned by family as a result of death by parents or family |
Challenges Faced by Sikh Single Mothers
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Financial and parenting issues |
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Trauma, Guilt, Fear, Anger, Denial, Low Self Esteem |
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Unfair and Out dated cultural practices, unacceptance, victimization and stigmatization |
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Impractical economic and poverty measurement, hidden poor, accessibility issues, lack of resources and information dissemination. |
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Inter religious remarriages and the custody of children, alimony that cannot be claimed for lack of savings or property. |
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Accessibility issues, Red IC holding mother, the housing issue, Children born to foreign women where citizen spouse died. |