Extra Baggage: and I don't Mean Fat!

Why must society label women who have children as “baggage” or “damaged goods”? Have we been tested in a laboratory somewhere in some remote corner of the globe and research shows the statistics are not in your favor if you are to start a relationship with us? How is our baggage so different than that of others? Maybe we are smarter, wiser, and plain realize the crap that we will and will not put up with and that makes us harder to attain and therefore to label is easier than to pursue. We endure so much as single mothers with our never-ending schedules and limited sleep and then we must add to that the struggle of having to overcome the stigma of “worthlessness” in the eyes of society and try to make a life as a single woman as well. Our beds are just as empty, just as needful- but a bit harder to crawl into. It doesn’t make us Queens of Ice or unreachable, just means we come to the table with a little more knowledge, a bit of integrity, and tad of skeptism that if your willing to chip at it, you could find exactly what you have been looking for.