Single Mothers

You Can Take the Sperm Out of the Man, But Can You Take the Man Out of the Sperm?

Louise Sloan | Posted 06.05.2008 | Life


Louise Sloan

Sperm bank customers pretend that what they're buying is a "gamete," which came from the gamete factory, not from a living man whose traits and looks they may find duplicated in their child.

Full-Page "Women Count" Ad for Hillary Excludes 28 Million Women

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media


Bella DePaulo

The ad funded by "Women Count" counts every woman -- as long as she is married. I wonder, are single women also invisible to Hillary?

Is Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Life


Louise Sloan

Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?

Knocked Up and Proud: Louise Sloan, Single Mother By Choice

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 03.26.2008 | Life


Rachel Kramer Bussel

New York-based writer and editor Louise Sloan didn't set out to be come a single mom, let alone a spokesperson for them. She knew she wanted kids at the age of 28, but her various partners weren't quite ready. When she hit 40, she knew it was time to proceed on her own.

Punished for Being Pregnant

Pamela Paul | Posted 03.20.2008 | Life


Pamela Paul

There's a lot governments and corporations and individual bosses need to do to fix this maternal profiling mess. But it's time women (and come on, men, too) started getting angry, loudly, about it.

On Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Lori Gottlieb | Posted 02.25.2008 | Life


Lori Gottlieb

There's nothing original about the idea that women have better marriage prospects at age 30 than at 40, and if we don't want to end up alone, we should pay attention.

The Case Against Quick-Fix Marriage

Anna Monardo | Posted 02.20.2008 | Life


Anna Monardo

Why does the media continue to showcase banter about how women can, and should, manipulate themselves into marriage?

"Marry Him!": Atlantic Magazine Back-of-the-Book Backlash Porn

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.17.2008 | Life


Bella DePaulo

Lori Gottlieb, writing in the Atlantic magazine, has one word for single women of any age: Settle! Settle, she exhorts us, even for the guy who smell...

Single Mom, Serial Killer

Louise Sloan | Posted 01.30.2008 | Life


Louise Sloan

I was prepared for most of the ways in which single motherhood can be lonely and hard, but there were some details they left out of the manual. Like, how do you get rid of the Christmas tree?

A Peaceful Revolution: Moms Leading on Fair Pay

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Life


Nanette Fondas

When our granddaughters read their history books, this week may well be one that is marked as the beginning of the end of the pay discrimination many of their foremothers endured.

The Imagined Family

Louise Sloan | Posted 01.16.2008 | Life


Louise Sloan

The important stuff -- a good dad, a good mom, a happy childhood, a happy marriage -- just can't be legislated into existence, though the British Parliament can sure try.

Can We Talk About Susan Sontag's Death and Then Maybe Our Own?

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media


Elizabeth Benedict

Through her son's bold, unflinching account of her refusal to accept her "extinction," Sontag may help us begin public and private conversations about dying that are long overdue.

Holidays For One?

Lea Lane | Posted 12.05.2007 | Life


Lea Lane

From Halloween-parading amid falling leaves in an 80-degree global-warming climate, to longing for Valentines from someone besides your plumber, the forcefully festive mode can get really tired.

Knock Yourself Up: How To Be A Single Mom

Daily Mail | HELEN WEATHERS | Posted 11.30.2007 | Life


In a controversial new book, this defiantly single mother gives a step-by-step guide to having a baby without a man. But even she admits there's a bit...

Dreading The Wedding: Why Single, 42 and Someone Else's Wedding Don't Mix

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.20.2007 | Life


Michelle Renee

I still have a hard time going to weddings and listening to vows, promises, lyrics to gushing love songs, seeing dreamy eyed bride and groom only to remember my own wedding and the demise of my marriage.

Romney 'Planning To Take Aim At Single Motherhood'

The Boston Globe | MICHAEL LEVENSON | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics


Mitt Romney yesterday offered a preview of his closely watched speech tomorrow before a summit of Christian conservative leaders in Washington, saying...


 

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