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Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Mikki Morrissette
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 11100
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0618833323
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.10243
EAN: 9780618833320
ASIN: 0618833323
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming and being a mother?includes the essential tools needed to decide whether to take this step, information on how best to follow through, and insight about answering the child's questions and needs over time.
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.
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 I couldn't put the book down! May 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received this book on Friday and was done reading it by the following Monday. It was well written and ridiculously helpful. I have chosen to take the route of being a single mother, and this is the first book I've read that looks at all aspects (including being a single lesbian mother) as well as providing suggestions of other books to read (which I have ordered recently as well.) I highly recommend this book for any womyn that is debating the question of Single Motherhood. The book is full of insightful questions that really made me stop and think about whether I was truly ready for this next step. It is a must read!
Good thinking points October 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book provides a good analysis of the issues surrounding the choice to be a single mom. Very smart and helpful.
 Great book for someone planning to be a single mother. January 15, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book answered a lot of my questions and gave me a lot to think about. I enjoyed all the different opinions and situations. It was also a great read. It would be wise for all single women who want children to read this book.
Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide January 9, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book, in my opinion, is a good reference for every woman considering single motherhood. Mikki Morrissette, makes it a point to bring examples from real life when writing about issues such as becoming pregnant by a donor sperm or adopting a child.
I found the book helpful in not only as a guide for all options of single motherhood but also as a thought tool to the many issues that single motherhood's entails.
Informative book for single women considering DI or adoption July 23, 2006
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
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