The series Under Guardianship dealt with some issues related to women that many divorced and widowed women suffer from, so the seventh day reviews, in the following lines, some tips for widowed women when they are exposed to life difficulties, according to Shaima Iraqi, a consultant for family relations and behavior modification.

The relationship consultant told Al-Youm Al-Sabea: “After losing her marriage, the widow suffers from troubles and difficulties in her life, especially if she is a breadwinner and raises orphans, so she is among her sufferings under the will of the grandfather and uncles and their control over the husband’s inheritance and the fate of her children. Treatment and control over children to ensure that the inheritance is not divided, or control over the widowed wife so that she does not remarry after the loss of their son.

And she continued: “The widow, on the other hand, lives with the community in a constant struggle between the view of sympathy and the assumption that she will not be able to work and enter the labor market.This is in addition to her suffering in raising her children, especially if they are in different stages and between their problems, securing their lives and daily needs, and the difficulty of securing life expenses if the deceased husband was an irregular worker for whom there is no pension or source of income. So she enters the labor market under compulsion, and she may accept any job that does not suit her experience or education..

This appears in the treatment of the series Under Guardianship in combating women at work, especially if the field does not have women to work, such as fishing, sea, going out with boats, and being the head of a fishing boat. Young children on their own suffer from the lack of a mother as a caretaker for the infant, and assigning responsibility to the little brother to take care of his sister in the absence of the mother. The events of the series touched the suffering of a number of widows in the struggle of life.

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How do you face these obstacles?

The family consultant said that the economic empowerment of a widowed woman requires her to search for suitable job opportunities according to her experience, and she should not accept jobs less than her experience in education. Women should search well for job opportunities that empower them socially and economically without quickly giving up on finding suitable opportunities for them.

The second step is to build the personality of the widowed woman and strengthen her capabilities to be able to work and go to the street, especially with the lack of experience of some women in life dealings and the inability of the necessary methods of dealing to protect her and enable her to deal with those around her.

Third, she must impose prestige on herself in her dealings with the opposite sex, and she does not have to accept marriage with any person who is not suitable for her protection only.

Fourth, she has to set strict limits on the methods of education for her children, which she does herself on them and rejects any interference to impose methods of education on the part of grandfathers, uncles, or maternal uncles.

She must find a safe environment to raise her children, and she has the choice to accept living and living with the family of her deceased husband, or to return to her family or separate independently to raise her children in a quiet manner.

It is also important to understand with the husband’s family and not to create problems and gain their affection in order to avoid creating problems and also to ensure a healthy incubating environment for her children, as some problems between a woman and her deceased husband’s family spoil the relationship between them