"There's nothing 'funny' or 'weird' about having a child as a single mother," snapped one solo mom in a sharply worded email to me a couple years ago. I'd posted to a national online list, looking for single moms by choice willing to tell me what had been "hard/good/funny/weird"...

Unwed motherhood is a national disaster, say many pundits, the latest being Slate advice columnist Emily Yoffe. They argue that the uncoupling of motherhood and marriage has devastating effects on the kids, who, according to statistics, grow up poor, have behavior problems, drop out of school, have children out...

I went out of town last weekend and came home, bone tired, to two dead mice. Well, two murdered mice--thank you, electronic traps! The baby had croup, was feverish, and barking like a seal, the 40-pound suitcase was waiting for me at the bottom of three flights of stairs, and...

"Sick" is the new "rad"-- as in, "Girl, those new shoes are sick!" I love it as a slammin' new slang word, but it does introduce some confusion. For example, we can probably all agree that single moms and lesbian moms are, like, totally sick. But does that mean we...

Sure, you can do it all as a single mom -- if you are willing to go over to the Dark Side.

I've been called a lot of names for choosing to have a kid on my own and daring to write a book about it: "selfish," "thoughtless," even...

It's the family so many of us dream of: beautiful, loving mommy, big strong handsome daddy, 2.5 cute, good-natured kids. Perfect. But those perfect, fantasy families get us into trouble when we insist that real life fit into that fantasy mold. Not even the finest family quite measures up.