TRAVAIL\truh-VAYL; TRAV-ayl\ , noun:
1.Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion.
2.Agony; anguish.
3.The labor of childbirth
My Sentence:
Single parenting is a highway with branching roads leading to foot trails of many challenging travails.
Origin:
Travail is from Old French traveillier, travaillier, from Vulgar Latin tripalium, "a three-staked instrument of torture," from Latin tripalis, "three-staked," from tri-, "three" + palus, "a stake."
Source: Online Dictionary
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