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...
Posted February 26, 2008 | 13:35:10 (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...
Posted November 1, 2007 | 14:17:00 (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...
Posted January 21, 2007 | 08:15:42 (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...
Posted December 24, 2006 | 09:53:26 (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...
Posted December 11, 2006 | 14:56:52 (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...


Posted January 12, 2009 | 09:06:44 (EST)