Single Motherhood

Bringing Light, Making Peace

Lisa Schultz | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Motherhood, International Adoption, Healing, Sierra Leone, Michele D'acosta, Parenting, Impact News

On Friday night, I land in Sierra Leone and the first important thing I do will be to gather my son Tejan in my arms and hope that this is last time he will be greeting me, instead of accompanying me, to Africa.

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Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied And Exhausted

Staceyann Chin | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, New Mothers, Motherhood, Lesbian Mothers, Lesbian Moms, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, New Motherhood, Gay Voices News

Last year, on Mother's day, I found out I was pregnant. I can hardly believe it's been a year since that gleeful Mother's Day. Only a year later, and life is a completely different shade of tumbling. I have become the mother of a rather scrumptious little girl.

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Octomom: Her Children, Her Choice and Our Responsibility

Roland C. Warren | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Absentee-Fathers, Welfare, Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, Nadya Suleman, Octomom, Personal Choice, Fatherless, Parents News

Suleman's story exposes the fact that for the last few decades, our culture has been constructing a modern-day "Tower of Babel" in celebration of "personal choice," especially when it comes to sex.

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I'm Sorry

Lisa Schultz | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Faith, The Peace Project, Mitch Albom, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Hunger, Shelters, Impact News

There are many things I forget these days -- those that I remember are significant, usually because they touched me in some way, caused me to think, to question, and possibly to change.

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Turning Boys Into Men: 4 Ways to Expand Your Son's "Boy Power"

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Biological Roots, Homosexual, Nuture, Raising Children, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Girlish, Two-Mother Families, Guns, Gender-Based Expectations, Dad, Single Mothers, Femailes, Mo Superheros, Feminity, Feminine, Masculinity, Single-Mother Families, Moms, Families, Single Mo, Daughter, Dads, Men, Woman, Gay, Boys, Masculine, Gender-Correct, Mothers, Girls, Sports, Mother, Nature, Man, Father, Males, Fathers, Parents News

We as a culture have held fast to the idea that we need to protect the boundaries between male and female. This is wrong, and even dangerous. Instead, we need to be reframing the discussion, and asking: What makes a boy a boy?

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The Peace Project

Lisa Schultz | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Adopted Children, Single Motherhood, The Peace Project, Sierra Leone Africa, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Nonprofit, Impact News

The Peace Project is not just a social movement currently doing work in Sierra Leone, Africa -- it's a very personal project and I've seen (and experienced) in the most tangible and fantastic ways the power it has to transform lives, starting with my own.

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Jumping the Fence

Kathleen Fordyce Rohan | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Outliving Your Spouse, 29th Birthday, Brain Cancer, Single Motherhood, Death of a Spouse, Cancer, Loss, Testicular Cancer, Birthday, Losing a Spouse, Grieving, Women News

Did I do everything I could to help him? Why do I get to live, blessed so far to be disease free? Why am I the lucky one who gets to enjoy the feel of our son's little arms around my neck?

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What Successful Women Can Share

Christine Eads | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Single Mom, Christine Eads, Randy Pausch, Sirius XM, Broadminded, Sirius Radio, The Last Lecture, Women News

As a single mother to a nine-year old son, I'd like to think I'm a role model for him by demonstrating that a woman can be independent and create her own career.

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Something Like A Family

Gila Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Single Mother, Motherhood, My Story, Fertility, Parenting, Sperm Donor, Baby, Women News

At some point, I don't remember exactly when, I stopped replacing my fraying lacy underwear with new lacy underwear and instead bought packs of three or five single color elastic fit.

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Rick Santorum's Latest Target -- Single Moms

Lara Bergthold | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Single Moms, Single Mothers, Child Welfare, Single Parents, Glenn Grothman, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum Women, Single Motherhood, Rick Santorum 2012, Single Fathers, Child Safety, Politics News

If politicians like Rick Santorum want to promote stable families, they should start by respecting all families. I can think of a lot of things that are making "the fabric of this country fall apart." Loving single parents are not one of them.

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Is Single Parenthood Child Abuse? Proposed Law Says Yes.

Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Wisconsin, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Wisconsin Gop, Glenn Grothman, Single Parents, Single Motherhood, Single Fathers, Black Voices News

A controversial bill targeting single parents came to the table at the Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services and Revenue public hearing in...

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10 Ways To Make Your Child Miserable

Sarah Maizes | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Temper Tantrums, Single Motherhood, Parenting, Discipline, Crying Baby, Parents-How-To, Parents News

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a cousin who had two sets of twins. Upon the birth of my first child said "Heed my words: NEVER make a happy baby happier."

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The Age When Single Motherhood Is Most Common

The New York Times | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Single Mom, Turning 30, Thirtysomething, Life in Your 30s, Women in Their 30s, Single Motherhood, Single Ladies, Single Women, Women News

LORAIN, Ohio — It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to un...

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"I'm Sleeping With My Sperm Donor"

Daily Mail | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Sperm Donors, Single Mothers, Relationships, Unlikely Relationships, Women News

Multiple trips to fertility doctors, three miscarriages and $60-$70,000 out of pocket, Tanya was left with little choice: if she was going to become a...

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Who's Your Daddy? Why Some Single Moms Hide Their Kids' Paternity

| Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Single Moms, Single Mothers, Hiding Father's Identity, Kids Don't Know Dad, Single Motherhood, Sperm Bank Babies, Motherhood, Not Knowing Dad, Absent Dads, Single Moms by Choice, Parents News

By Amy Levin-Epstein Mary* is a 40-year-old business owner and a single mom by choice to her 2-year-old daughter. When she decided to start a famil...

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Thoughts On Adoption Motherhood, In Black, White And Technicolor

Terra Trevor | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Working Women, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Celebrity, Adoption, Parents News

Within our sisterhood of adoptive mothers, we are a bit hard on each other.

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Since When Do Women Become Single Mothers to Be More Attractive to Men?

Melanie Notkin | Posted 02.13.2012

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When did voluntarily becoming a single mother become the barometer for your desire to be a mother, your bravery, and your level of attractiveness to men?

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Coming Out Pregnant!

Staceyann Chin | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Lesbian Mothers, Single Mothers, Ivf Pregnancy, Parents-Pregnancy, Single Motherhood, Pregnancy, Global Motherhood, Children of Lesbian Mothers, Ivf, Black Voices News

I am on bed rest, and don't get out that often, so it's always a shock to me, to have folks respond so strongly to my pregnancy. Now that my belly is miles ahead of the rest of me everybody knows on sight about my condition, which means I have no control over people's reactions.

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Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry

Staceyann Chin | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Baby-Showers, Mother Pregnancy, BlackVoices Parenting, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Parents Pregnancy, Baby Registry, Baby Showers, Black Voices News

Weeks ago, I attempted the famed and necessary baby registry. Famed, because everyone tells me I need a registry and necessary, because no one can afford all the crap that these stores insist is supposed to be basic.

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Baby, Love and Going Home

Staceyann Chin | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Single Motherhood, Single Mothers by Choice, Pregnancy, Lesbian Mothers, Single Mothers, Pregnancy Bed Rest, Bed Rest During Pregnancy, Bv-Parenting, Parents-Pregnancy, Parents-Newborns, Black Voices News

Regardless of how certain I feel most of the time, I can't escape these moments when I am overwhelmed by the many obstacles I continue to face as I press forward, pregnant and without a partner.

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Am I Talking To A Boy Or Girl?

Staceyann Chin | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Lesbian Mother, Miscarriage, Bv-Life, Lesbian, Single Motherhood, Pregnancy, Knowing Sex of Baby, Bed-Rest-During-Pregnancy, Black Voices News

From the moment I began to tell folks I was carrying a little person inside me, I've been dodging the question of gender/sex. And because I decided beforehand that I would not find out, I would seek out the most creative ways to sidestep the question.

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Motes and Beams

Stacia L. Brown | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Single Motherhood, Unwed Mothers, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Beyonce Pregnant, Beyonce Pregnant Vma, BV Life, Beyonce Pregnancy, Postbourgie, Bv-Parenting, Black Voices News

On the VMAs, a woman cradled her abdomen and revealed the life growing there. By extension, unmarried mothers were inundated with presumptuous gloating.

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Why Divorce Doesn't Need A 'Cure'

Sarah Maizes | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Stacy Morrison, Relationship Advice, Single Mothers, Divorce, Single Parenting, Sarah Maizes, Single Motherhood, Marriage Therapy, Parenting, Dr. Wygant, Stacy-Morrison-Falling-Apart-in-One-Piece, Divorce News

I'm sick. And I didn't even know it. According to an article by Dr. David Wygant on Huffington Post, divorce can be as preventable as the common c...

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The Invisible Infertility

Melanie Notkin | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Invisble Infertility, Circumstantial Infertility, Women, The Truth About Childless Women, Childlessness, Childless, Children, Aunt, The-Truth-About-Childless-Women, Savvy Auntie, Nephew, Single Motherhood, Fertility, Maternal, Auntie, Childless Women, Adoption, Niece, Childfree, Single Mothers, Circumstantial-Infertility, Ivf, Savvyauntie, Grief, Infertility Grief, Infertily, SavvyAuntie.Com, Women News

For women like me, we not only grieve the loss of motherhood, but we also grieve the loss of the dream, the dream of finding love and marriage resulting in that beautiful baby carriage.

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Yes, I Want to be a Single Mom

Judy Minor | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Single Motherhood, Preschool Application Process, Preschool, Early Childhood Education, Parenting, Diversity, Parents News

The preschool application process in New York City can make any mother anywhere on the tiger-to-earth spectrum begin to quiver in her espadrilles. The application process is all the more intimidating for me, a single mother by choice, who recently attended a panel discussion on the topic, where I seated myself among a gathering of sophisticated couples.

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