Product Description
Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for women looking for both support and insight. Based on extensive up-to-date research, advice from child experts and family therapists, as well as interviews with more than one hundred single women, this book explores
• common questions and concerns of women facing this decision, including: Can I afford to do this? Should I wait longer to see if life turns a new corner? How do Choice Mothers handle the stress of solo parenting?
• what the research says about growing up in a single-parent household • how to answer a child’s “daddy” questions • the facts about adoption, anonymous donor insemination, and finding a known donor • how the children of pioneering Choice Mothers feel about their lives
Written in a lively style that never sugarcoats or sweeps problems under the rug, Choosing Single Motherhood covers the topic clearly, concisely, and with a great deal of heart.
#1 by B. Treml on November 18, 2009 - 10:08 pm
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This book provides a good analysis of the issues surrounding the choice to be a single mom. Very smart and helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Leah Klungness on November 18, 2009 - 11:30 pm
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Single motherhood is a profoundly life altering decision. This book helps women considering single motherhood by choice to take a realistic look at their options and the possible complications and difficulties. The interviews with “grown – up” children is a bonus and fairly reflects the perceptions of the majority of the children raised by single moms by choice. Single moms by choice or by chance will also want to check out The Complete Single Mother, recently published in a completely revised third edition.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Sam Huntex on November 19, 2009 - 1:42 am
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The author’s “Choice Mother” is financially independent and too good to be true. I did not find the book to be useful in preparing advice for a beautiful, single, impecunious woman whose biological clock is running out. I know she wants children and can find a husband subsequently. That possibility is not mentioned.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Jennifer Rivera on November 19, 2009 - 4:18 am
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This book was very very helpful and in great shape it was just like new! I enjoyed it. Delivery was good and had no problems. I am completely Satisfy. Thank you so much
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Sally on November 19, 2009 - 5:03 am
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I have started to read this book on at least four occasions. I force myself to read it for a few nights and a row and then I end up setting it aside. I’ve owned the book for a year and a half and am not even to the half way point. I find the author tries to incorporate many experts opinions but it is in a scattered sort of fashion. The author does not have a very succinct fashion of writing. A chapter that’s five pages contains information that could have been contained on two pages. Overall a very dry read.
Rating: 2 / 5