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The Missing Debate on Poverty

Linda Basch | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women Unemployment, John McCain, 14 Million Women Living in Poverty, Poverty, Women Poverty, Economic Crisis, Gender Wage Gap, Home Mortgages, Secretary of Treasury, Single Working Mother, Poverty Stricken, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Federal Bailout, National Women's Law Center, Single Mothers, Unemployment, Child Healthcare, Healthcare, Politics News

The candidates' strategic messages on the welfare of the middle class were loud and clear during the debate, but it was their silence on poverty that was truly deafening.

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Women Respond To Palin -- Part 2, MomsRising

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Motherhood Manifesto, Vice President, John McCain, Ann Crittendon, Single Mothers, MomsVote'08, The Price of Motherhood, Motherhood, Momsrising, Sarah Palin, Joan Blades, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Poverty, Working Mothers, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

MomsRising tackles problems that don't get adequate recognition.

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Single Motherhood By Design

Kira Craft | Posted 09.22.2008 | Style

Read More: Parenting, Single Motherhood by Choice, Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, Style News
Kira Craft

I don't have to find "The One" and fall in love and get married to procreate. My body doesn't actually care if Cupid has shot my heart straight through with arrows.

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'Single Motherhood By Choice' Movement Gains Momentum

The Guardian | Viv Groskop | Posted 09.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Parenting, Single Mothers by Choice, Single Mothers, Choosing Single, Single Motherhood, Style News

Ten years on and this group of women is growing. So-called "single motherhood by choice" has always existed: around 250 of the 1,100-strong membership...

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Today's Dad: Paycheck or Pervert?

Louise Sloan | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Mothers by Choice, Perverts, Dads, Single Mothers, Dads Childcare, Parenting, Feminism, Ikufumi Yamada, Parenthood, Cnn, Parenting Magazine, Sexism, Knock Yourself Up, India, Fatherhood, Single Fathers, Surrogacy, Single Dads, Indian Surrogacy, Indian Surrogates, Manjhi Yamada, Louise Sloan, Parents, Living News
Louise Sloan

Our world is still plenty unfair to women, it goes without saying. But in this arena where moms rule, when will dads rate?

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Frozen River: Breaking Through the Summer Pack

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Breaking Entertainment News, Women's Issues, Box Office, Women Film Journalists, Native Americans, Misty Upham, The Oscars, Tom Bernard, Movies, Single Mothers, Women Filmmakers, Illegal Immigrants, Frozen River, Mohawk Nation, Melissa Leo, Courtney Hunt, Women Directors, Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Women's Issues, Breaking Entertainment News, Box Office, Women Film Journalists, Native Americans, Misty Upham, Tom Bernard, The Oscars, Movies, Single Mothers, Women Filmmakers, Illegal Immigrants, Frozen River, Mohawk Nation, Melissa Leo, Courtney Hunt, Women Directors, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

"Smart movies like Frozen River are an alternative" says Sony Pictures co-president Tom Bernard. "We never try to win the weekend... we try to win the war."

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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 | Living

Read More: Single Moms, Single Mothers by Choice, Sperm Donors, Knock Yourself Up, Choice Moms, Alternative Families, Pacific Reproductive Services, Single Mothers, Sperm Banks, Sperm Bank of California, Wendy Kramer, Parenting, Sperm, Clay Aiken, Louise Sloan, Celebrity Kids, Living News
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.

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

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Law, Single Men, Children, Single Mothers, Matrimania, Fox, Media, Scholarship, Singles, Federal Funding, Marriage, Singlism, Los Angeles Times, Social Movements, Demographics, Single Women, Voting, Second-Wave Feminism, Abc, Women, Work Life Balance, Political Ads, Feminism, USA Today, Advertising, WomenCount PAC, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Academia, 2008 Presidential Candidates, Higher Education, Widows, Media News
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?

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Is Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Moms, Knock Yourself Up, Unwed Motherhood, Peggy Drexler, Universal Healthcare, Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, fauxrealtho.com, Slate, Emily Yoffe, Sex Education, Marriage, Unwed Mothers, Single Fatherhood, Susan Golombok, Fatherhood, Public Education, Cambridge University, Louise Sloan, Single Mom, Motherhood, Parenting, Feminism, Cornell, Living News
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?

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

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 03.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Knock Yourself Up, Single Mothers by Choice, Single Family Homes, Leslie Sloan, Single Family Households, Single Mothers, Living News
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.

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Punished for Being Pregnant

Pamela Paul | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Motherhood and Work, Gender Discrimination, Working Mothers, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Discrimination Against Mothers, Parenting, Feminism, Momsrising, Parenthood, Maternal Profiling, Single Mothers, Work, Moms Rising, Sexism, Discrimination, Living News
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.

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On Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Lori Gottlieb | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Lori Gottlieb, Bella DePaulo, Marry Him, Single Motherhood, Marriage, Single Mothers, Relationships, Living News
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.

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The Case Against Quick-Fix Marriage

Anna Monardo | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Motherhood, Marriage, Singles, Single Mothers, Relationships, Marriage and Settling, Living News
Anna Monardo

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

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

Bella DePaulo | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Caitlin Flanagan, Singled Out, Aging, Atlantic, Backlash, Single Mothers, Singles, Myths, Feminism, Advice, Happiness, Friendship, History, Marriage, Cnn, Loneliness, Dan Quayle, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Jon Stewart, Bridget Jones, Sex, Lori Gottlieb, Love, Single Women, Living News
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...

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Single Mom, Serial Killer

Louise Sloan | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Moms, Single Motherhood, Choosing Single Motherhood, Holiday Season, Single Mothers, Christmas Trees, Christmas, Living News
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?

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A Peaceful Revolution: Moms Leading on Fair Pay

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Single Mothers, Fair Pay Restoration Act, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Fair Pay, A Peaceful Revolution, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Living News
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.

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The Imagined Family

Louise Sloan | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Fertilization, Choosing Single Motherhood, Knock Yourself Up, Single Mothers, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, House of Lords, Single Motherhood, Single Mother by Choice, British Parliment, Family, Living News
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.

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

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Swimming in a Sea of Death, Public Intellectuals, Single Mothers, Susan Sontag Death, Susan Sontag, Memoir, Susan Sontag Cancer, Hillary Clinton, Cancer, David Rieff, 2008 Election, Death, Media News
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.

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Holidays For One?

Lea Lane | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living

Read More: New Year's Eve, Holiday Parties, Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Thanksgiving, Tips for Single People, Holiday Cooking, Holiday Stress, Advice for Singles, Christmas Stories, Single During the Holidays, Single Mothers, Preparing for the Holidays, Holiday Stories, Christmas, Single Women, Living News
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.

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Knock Yourself Up: How To Be A Single Mom

Daily Mail | HELEN WEATHERS | Posted 11.30.2007 | Living

Read More: Knock Yourself Up, How to Be a Single Mother, Louise Sloan, Single Mothers, Living News

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...

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

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Going to a Wedding Alone, Single Mothers, Divorce, Being Single, Single Parents, Weddings, Living News
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.

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Romney 'Planning To Take Aim At Single Motherhood'

The Boston Globe | MICHAEL LEVENSON | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, Single Mothers, Politics News

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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