Choice Mom Community Finally Getting Some Data About Who We Are, and Are Not

As many of us know, Choice Moms tend to be combined with divorced parents when critics talk about the traumas and difficulties for children in single-parent households. That's partly because our particular community of single women who proactively choose motherhood has rarely been part of a focused research group. And the studies that have been done involve only a few dozen women or less.

Choice Moms made contact with one of the prominent social scientists interested in non-traditional families, Susan Golombok of U.K's Cambridge University, who was interested in working with the women who regularly visit the Choice Mom website. She and her team developed a series of (anonymous) surveys for the Choice Mom community: Thinkers, Tryers, Moms....through adoption, anonymous or known donor.

The first stage of research is now complete. More than 500 women responded to the first survey. The results will be released here sometime in Fall/Winter 2008, so stayed tuned to find out in aggregate who tends to be on this journey.