Posted September 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM

What Choice Moms are listening to

filed under: podcast, feature, adoption, anonymous donor, becoming, being, commentary, daddy question, dating, emotions, event insights, expert insight, fertility, genetics, growing up without a father, healthy living, home insemination, known donor, legal, miscarriage, money matters, newborn, numbers, parenting, profile, resources, sperm, , stress relief, support network, thinking, trying, waiting, doula, ChoiceChat

Lately I have been hearing from women who would love for me to return to creating new podcasts. I took 2011 off from the work, but hope to return this year with new shows -- and perhaps a webinar series! I currently have 46 shows available, with more than 39,000 downloads. Here's what's available.

Posted February 28, 2011 at 9:05 AM

Priceless column from CNN's Jessica Ravitz

filed under: profile, dating, partners, thinking, trying, waiting, becoming, being, inspiration

We kick off our March focus on "conscious conversations" with this wonderful response by CNN's Jessica Ravitz to a Huffington Post commentary speculating why women like us are not married.

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Posted February 23, 2011 at 7:05 AM

My daughter is feeling sorry for me

filed under: commentary, thinking, trying, waiting, becoming, being, ChoiceKids, parenting, daddy question, dating, partners, stress, emotions

As we were driving through yet another snowstorm in Minneapolis the other day, so I could get my 11-year-old daughter to a birthday party, she suggested I get a husband.

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Posted February 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Wish Lists: The Best Partners in the World

filed under: commentary, being, partners, dating

Admittedly I've become pretty oblivious to Valentine's Day. But that doesn't mean I don't have dreams...

Posted January 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM

Emma: our international similarities

filed under: thinking, trying, dating, book, sperm, profile, UnitedKingdom, partners

One thing I'm excited about is that in the coming months we will be featuring more content for our communities in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Here is the story of one of us, currently living in the United Kingdom, that is in keeping with the February focus on "Partners."

Posted November 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM

Q&A: my child is calling my ex-boyfriend "daddy"

filed under: being, ChoiceKids, daddy question, QandA, dating

A 5-year-old Choice Kid started referring to a woman's ex-boyfriend as "daddy" even though he had proven to be not good father material and the mother had ended the relationship six months earlier. He hadn't been in their life since. The girl was saying that she "missed her daddy," even though she'd never referred to him that way before.

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Posted October 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM

Marriage: Who Needs It?

filed under: being, commentary, profile, survey, partners, dating

This past Saturday was an interesting intersection date for me, which I'd like to talk about with the Choice Mom community.

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Posted September 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM

Choice Moms are getting younger

filed under: thinking, profile, being, trying, survey, dating

I’ve noticed an interesting trend the last few years in the stories I’m learning about through this website, and the Choice Mom networking events. Many of the women choosing single motherhood these days are younger than what I would consider the norm. I asked some of these women to share their stories on ChoiceMoms.org.

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Posted February 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM

Lori Gottlieb: Are women too picky?

filed under: podcast, thinking, dating, news, hot topic, being, expert insight, ChoiceChat

Choice Mom Lori Gottlieb made headlines two years ago when she wrote an Atlantic Monthly piece suggesting that maybe single women like her, opting to have kids alone, were simply too picky about finding a partner. Now she's made headlines again with her New York Times best-selling book.

Dating

It's not easy to take this step when you'd rather have a partner. Or to look for the right partner after you've become a single mom. Here are thoughts on the process.

Choice Morsel

We revisit with Choice Mom Lori Gottlieb as she unveils her book about finding the right partner.

Choice Moms talk about dating

A group of women at a Choice Mom networking event talk bluntly about the prospects of dating as a single woman.

Posted February 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM

Survey Says: Choice Moms generally not interested

filed under: thinking, being, dating, research, survey, news, numbers

Human Fertility journal published the findings of Susan Golombok's Cambridge University survey of who Choice Moms are, and are not. Notable findings: we have a high percentage of post-graduate degrees, and we don't hate men. But, of course, we knew that.

Posted January 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM

Why the pool is shallow

filed under: thinking, hot topic, commentary, news, research, dating, QandA

When Pew Center released its research report in January 2010 indicating that women are graduating from college in bigger numbers than men, it led to some discourse about why, then, so many of us are facing this Choice Mom decision.

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Posted January 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM

Debating women's place in the world

filed under: being, hot topic, news, commentary, dating

When a woman posted about her surprise -- and some trepidation -- about finding out she would be the mother to a boy, it led in many sideways paths to a lengthy discussion on the board (nearly 100 posts!) about, in a nutshell: