By: Healthy Black Women and Girls

With all honor and respect to the single mothers who raised many of us, we want to ask how do we break the cycle and begin to build stronger, more stable families and homes so that our children can thrive and our communities can heal? Self love. Let’s make thoughtful, mindful, deliberate decisions about the men who we give our hearts and bodies to. If a man has not demonstrated his loyalty, love and respect for you then that should tell you all you need to know about his future potential as a husband or a father. “I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” [Quote: Maya Angelou.]