| View Larger Image | Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide | Paperbackby Mikki Morrissette (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Mariner Books | | Page Count: | 448 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 20, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 177,993th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780618833320
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Product Description
The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming and being a mother—includes the essential tools needed to decide whether to take this step, information on how best to follow through, and insight about answering the child’s questions and needs over time.Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for women looking for both support and insight. 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, this book explores• 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 a 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 livesWritten in a lively style that never sugarcoats or sweeps problems under the rug, Choosing Single Motherhood covers the topic clearly, concisely, and with a great deal of heart. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)
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Choosing single Motherhood by Morrissette by Sam Huntex  1 Stars
September 30, 2009
The author's "Choice Mother" is financially independent and too good to be true. I did not find the book to be useful in preparing advice for a beautiful, single, impecunious woman whose biological clock is running out. I know she wants children and can find a husband subsequently. That possibility is not mentioned.
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Fast and Great Conditions by Jennifer Rivera (Utah)  5 Stars
August 24, 2009
This book was very very helpful and in great shape it was just like new! I enjoyed it. Delivery was good and had no problems. I am completely Satisfy. Thank you so much :)
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Interesting topic, not an interesting book by Sally (Ontario)  2 Stars
August 22, 2009
I have started to read this book on at least four occasions. I force myself to read it for a few nights and a row and then I end up setting it aside. I've owned the book for a year and a half and am not even to the half way point. I find the author tries to incorporate many experts opinions but it is in a scattered sort of fashion. The author does not have a very succinct fashion of writing. A chapter that's five pages contains information that could have been contained on two pages. Overall a very dry read.
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This is THE book for an SMC who is thinking! by Iowa Therapist (Ottumwa, IA) 5 Stars
July 04, 2009
This is a GREAT book. I bought it when I was tired of thinking to myself, "I want a child" and not really researched how to do it alone. I wasn't sure, I had SO many questions, and I wanted to hear about how it was sucessfully done! I RECOMEND this book to any single woman who wants to do this on her own! Now... if I can just convince my mother :)
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A Bit Heavy-Handed, But Great Resource by R. Lynn  4 Stars
October 21, 2008
Light on humor and heavy on the serious issues surrounding single motherhood. Too much for one sitting, but I'll keep it as a resource. In my experience, some of the issues, such as being judged by one's community for being a single mom, are not as relevant today, at least in my area. If you're secure in your decision to be a single mom, others will take their cue from you.
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