Mikki Morrissette is the Minneapolis-based author of Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide, which has sold to women in 10 countries. She maintains and moderates a growing list of online resources for Choice Moms, including the ChoosingSingleMotherhood.com website, a discussion group, and a monthly newsletter. She recently launched the VoicesofDonorConception.com website, which focuses on the stories and issues related to donor insemination.

Blog Entries by Mikki Morrissette

A Response to Ann Coulter

Posted January 12, 2009 | 09:06 AM (EST)


For those of you not attuned to every attention-getting proclamation of Ann Coulter, she recently went on a 3.5-minute rant on The Today Show (Wednesday, January 7) about why single motherhood is the root of evil in society today.

An old argument, defended in an old way. Largely focused...

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Is Mr. Good Enough Okay?

Posted February 26, 2008 | 01:35 PM (EST)


For this Valentine's Day month, Choice Mom Lori Gottlieb pondered whether she actually was too picky, as critics like to suggest when women in their 30s cannot find a partner before it's time to raise kids.

You can read her views in Atlantic Monthly and hear her perspective...

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More Women Not Seeking Marriage

Posted November 1, 2007 | 01:17 PM (EST)


A Newsweek article this week (dated Nov. 5) reinvigorates the ongoing debate about whether it is good or bad that more single women are purposely replacing Mr. Right with a turkey baster in order to "knock themselves up."

The typical, and legitimate debate concerns whether children grow up happy...

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Myths about Choice Moms

Posted January 21, 2007 | 08:15 AM (EST)


A recent Today Show segment (January 16) spent more than 8 minutes discussing the prevalence of Choice Motherhood, which refers to women who proactively choose single motherhood.

I know about 500 of these women, and about 100 of their kids. I am the Choice Mom of two, now married, and...

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What is Family?

Posted December 24, 2006 | 09:53 AM (EST)


In another life I would have been a geneticist. I'm fascinated with the idea that from a drop of blood we can today learn that our ancestors left Africa and traveled along the coastline, through India, to Australia. Or headed into the Middle East and eventually to Europe. Or ventured...

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Why Single Women Make Great Parents

Posted December 11, 2006 | 02:56 PM (EST)


When news hit recently that out-of-wedlock births in the U.S. have climbed to an all-time high, there was a predictable wailing and gnashing of teeth by some commentators about how bad this is for the children.

I know hundreds of single women who have become mothers, through conception or...

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