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SINGLE PARENT BY CHOICE

ANTHOLOGIES/MEMOIRS
  • Knock Yourself Up: No Man? No Problem!: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom by Louise Sloan.
  • Published by Avery, 2007

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    She majored in theater in college, and her plan was to become an enlightened housewife: “I’ll get married to someone who makes a decent living and I’ll volunteer and have a theater company on the side,” she added. Instead, she is startled to find that she has practically become the man she’d wanted to marry: “I made my way up in the business world, I had a baby on my own, and I do theater on the side.”

  • Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own by Alexandre Soiseth.
  • Published by Seal Press, 2008

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  • Motherhood Reimagined: When Becoming a Mother Doesn’t Go as Planned: A Memoir by Sarah Kowalski.
  • Published by She Writes Press, 2017

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    My connection with Rodrigo sparked a new idea – a man did not have to be both my boyfriend and my baby daddy. The person who satisfied my romantic, emotion, and physical cravings did not also have to be the father of my child. My various needs and desires – for emotional support, physical intimacy, companionship, baby-making sperm, and parenting support – didn’t have to be met by one person; they could be met by different people. This concept was equal parts revolutionary and eye-opening.

  • Going Solo: My Choice to Become a Single Mother Using a Donor by Genevieve Roberts.
  • Published by Piatkus, 2019

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    Dr Almeling has found across her research that egg donors are emphatic that they are not mothers of these children: someone else was pregnant and gave birth. It’s the mother who raised the child in every way, from changing nappies to teaching them to be kind. The donor is simply that: someone who gave the possibility of life.

  • Liv’s Alone: Amateur Adventures in Solo Motherhood by Liv Thorne.
  • Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2022

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    I focus far more on the power of the word ‘mother’ than any adjectives before it.

ANTHOLOGIES/MEMOIRS – QUEER
  • An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood by Emma Brockes.
  • Published by Penguin Press, 2018

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    Here is the paradox and perhaps the cruelest thing about fertility treatment: that the harder I engage in trying to have a child, the more I want one, and the harder it becomes to convince myself of something I once took for granted – that I’ll be absolutely fine if I don’t.