Of Unwed Moms and Morality

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/school-t-sack-unwed-mom-000000754.html

The Supreme Court issued a decision very recently which vindicated a school teacher sacked on the basis of her bearing a child out of wedlock. The decision came as a surprise to many considering that the private school involved is a Catholic school.  According to reports, the teacher who was then employed by the school was single but got pregnant.  The teacher's affair had no impediments whatsoever but that she simply chose to proceed with the pregnancy without marrying her partner.

Her employer, the school, dismissed her on the basis of "immorality."  That as a teacher, getting pregnant without the benefit of marriage "scandalized" the institution and bred "controversy."  

But the Supreme Court decided it was unfair for the school to dismiss the unwed mom.  Given that there were no impediments between her and her baby's father and that the choice of non-marriage was purely personal, the Supreme Court saw merit in the teacher's cause.

Ahh.  It pains me so much to think how people can be cruel and spiteful towards unwed moms.  Society's standards esteem poorly a woman who bears a child out of wedlock.  Moreso if such woman is a teacher.  But for the bigoted, how many married couples succeed in marriage?  How many married couples have raised their children well?  How many married people can honestly and truly say they are happy to be married to their child's parent?  How many "perfect" families are there in your immediate vicinity?  How many married individuals have made positive contribution to the society at large?

I am not trying to be a cynic.  Neither am i trying to warp the society's standards.  Truth is, to be unwed (or deserted) isn't everyone's preference.  It's just that sometimes, there are bitter pills we have to swallow in order to survive.

And if one happens to emerge from the ideal --- a perfect marriage and a perfect family to boot, does that make him,

or her,

or you,

Holier 

than me?