The father of her child might have died, or left 10 years after the baby was born, etc. Saying she shouldn't have made this choice is completely idiotic. It's highly unlikely she chose her situation.

I wont hire such a person.

You will, because you have to. Deep down everyone is this person. We will all take time off to look after our families and prioritise things above our jobs if they're important to us. An employer has to understand this, especially when you get to the size of Yelp and you're employing call centre sales staff.

Yes, I know people have problems. The kind of people I dont want is who bitch about it and have sense of entitlement.

Just playing the devil's advocate here:

1) Society also does not provide any particular path for her kid's pre-school, which she must cover out out of pocket, unlike, let's say, creches in France.

2) When her kid grows up, society (in California at least) also doesn't provide any meaningful transportation options to/from school. She will have to handle the driving. Her best hope is to find other parents who'd agree to a carpool, so that at least it's not daily.

3) Most work hours are 8 to 6. Most school hours are conveniently 9 to 3, which means that she ought to explain to the coworkers that she'll be late in the morning as she needs to drop off the kid at school and then pay someone (after-school care) to pick the kid up at 3, or drive herself, if feasible.

4) In some states leaving the kids at home alone would be a reason for neighbors to call Child Protection Services, so there's a need to hire someone to accompany the kid from 3 till 6 until mother gets home.

So while society may not owe a single mother much, it seems to have gone to incredible lengths to complicate their lives and annihilate any possibility of them having a career and any modicum of social mobility.

How do kids in CA expected to get to school if they're not within walking distance and have no public transportation?

  Society does not owe any special treatment to a single mom, not more than any other mom

  Single mother is a choice of an independent woman and if she cant afford it she should probably not make it.

  Instead of being thankful for an employer to have given an opportunity in first place she is ranting against her employer.

  I wont hire such a person.

You seriously need to leave your cave and experience the life in a modern society.

But hey US uses drones to kill little kids in Pakistan and doctors in Afganistan.

Also society is not same as government. People voluntarily doing stuff is society. Few people through power of majority forcing everyone to pay up for single mothers is government.

  But hey US uses drones to kill little kids in Pakistan and doctors in Afghanistan.

  Few people through power of majority forcing everyone to pay up for single mothers is government.

One of the measures of a civilised society is how well it looks after its most vulnerable members.

> Single mother is a choice of an independent woman and if she cant afford it she should probably not make it.

With respect, this is a very naive and simplistic view of the situation which displays a lack of empathy. I doubt many women make the explicit choice to become single mothers. There are many reasons she could have ended up in this situation. Perhaps her husband died, or ran away when he discovered she was pregnant.

You might as well say that being in a car crash is the choice of an independent driver, and if they didn't want to experience pain they should not have chosen to be in a car crash.

Especially when her superior clearly had cut her so much slack in past.

I don't know about the USA, but in many countries that would open you up to a discrimination lawsuit.

I wouldn't hire someone with as little compassion and humanity as you. I feel as if you're projecting your anger for some reason.