The comprehensive guid for single women interested in proactively becoming and being a mother - includes the essential tools needed to decide wether to take this step, infomation on how best to follow through, and insight about answereing the child's questions and needs over time.

Based on extensive up-to-date research, advice from child experts and family therapists, as well as interviews with more than one hundred single women.

common questions and concerns of women facing this decision, including:

• can I afford to do this?
• should I wait longer to see if life turns a new corner? how do choice mothers handle the stress of solo parenting?
• what the research says about growing up in a single-parent household
• how to answer the child's "daddy" questions
• the facts about adoption, anonymous donor insemination, and finding a known donor
• how the children of pioneering choice mothers feel about their lives

 

Mikki Morrissette is a choice mother of two. She is now married and lives with her family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mikki Morrissette / Choosing single motherhood. The thinking woman's guide / Houghton Mifflin company / 2005, 2008

Reactie Alleen met kinderwens:

Net als Single mothers by choice is dit boek toegespitst op de Amerikaanse situatie, en daarom maar beperkt interessant voor vrouwen in Nederland.

Bij het boek hoort ook een website: www.choosingsinglemotherhood.com