The Truth About Working Moms: Why Leaving Your Baby With a Stranger Is Not Normal and the Sacrifice Is Worth It

I finally reached a point I couldn’t leave him anymore. In fact, I wanted to be with him and my 6 year old. I quit my job when my husband was making $400 a week.

Why Didn’t Someone Tell Me?

You’re probably not going to like this, but please stay with me. I would give anything if some woman, when I was a new mom, would have been courageous enough to risk losing my affection for her in order to speak truth and life to me.

I Left My Son

When I was a young mother, I left my infant son with a stranger-to-him to go to work. It’s what everyone else did. And besides, we had to have two incomes to pay bills. Not go on vacation or buy luxury cars, but to keep the water the power on. I cried, but I still told myself it was what I had to do and crying was normal.

Dire Circumstances

Let me tell you something the world, and even many in the church are not brave enough to say: leaving your baby for someone else to mostly raise, for any reason, is not normal. Are there dire circumstances that may require…