N. Korea's single mothers face severe levels of discrimination - Daily NK English

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N. Korea's single mothers face severe levels of discrimination - Daily NK English

While it is fairly common for unmarried North Korean women to have children, single mothers receive no support from the government and are even shunned by society, Daily NK has learned. “Nowadays, you can sometimes see young women having children without getting married. Women used to avoid premarital sex as a legacy of Confucian gender segregation, but young women today don’t value sexual purity like their parents’ generation did,” a source in …