Based on job availability, many Mexican women have decided to immigrate to the United States to work and send money home to their family. Traditionally, men would travel to the United States for work, but now husbands are being left behind. There are also an increasing number of women headed by single-parent households, forcing them to be both mothers and breadwinners. This brings them guilt and stigma for breaking gender traditions, and a constant fear that their children at home will no longer love them. Lourdes becomes a transnational mother because she has one foot in the United States and another in Honduras. Lourdes in this case becomes the provider, working day and night without anyone's help, to offer the best to her youngest daughter and herself. Lourdes still has to send money home for her children's education and lifestyle, Lourdes has become a hard working mother to be able to manage her life together. Even though Lourdes had to escape her extreme poverty, Lourdes still needed to overcome the guilt of leaving her children behind and not being able to be an important part of their lives.