Samira is from Tunisia and is about to have a baby girl. She recounts that families in Tunisia are generally large and that women who do not get married or don’t have children are considered complex and judged very negatively.

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SAMIRA: «My name is Samira, I live in a village called Bir Ahmed, a village in the city of Al-Qayrawan, which is an Islamic city in Tunisia, known for the Mosque of Uqba.
In Tunisia, families are very large. For example, there are those in the family who have about six or seven children, and there are also those who have two or three. And that depends on what job they do or how many children they want. But if you have many children they ask you why you have so many of them, while if you don’t have any they ask you why anyway.
As for me, I would like to have two or three children, no more. Now I’m going to be a mother for the first time. A little girl. I love children. I love them so much. It doesn’t matter if it’s a boy or a girl. I love all children. Now I’m going to be a mother for the first time. I am currently preparing to be better because I love children so much. I don’t know what to expect in the future or what I’m going to do with my daughter, but I think I’ll be a wonderful mom.
My mother, was an exceptional and exemplary woman. She gave us a lot of love and taught us how to be siblings and love each other. She also taught us how to transmit so much love to our children in the future. So much love.
A girl who doesn’t get married and who doesn’t want to have children is considered “comple-complicated”. Although she has the freedom to do so, another nickname is also used as “the unmarried woman”; and there are a lot of negative comments and swear words towards women who do not marry or don’t have children.»

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