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Single by Chance Mothers by Choice - How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Paperback)
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Single by Chance Mothers by Choice - How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Paperback)
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A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of
having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers
By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of
this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class
women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make
single parenthood work for them.
Hertz interviewed 65 women--ranging from physicians and financial
analysts to social workers, teachers, and secretaries--women who
speak candidly about how they manage their lives and families as
single mothers. What Hertz discovers are not ideologues but
reluctant revolutionaries, women who--whether straight or
gay--struggle to conform to the conventional definitions of mother,
child, and family. Having tossed out the rulebook in order to
become mothers, they nonetheless adhere to time-honored rules about
child-rearing. As they tell their stories, they shed light on their
paths to motherhood, describing how they summoned up the courage to
pursue their dream, how they broke the news to parents, siblings,
friends, and co-workers, how they went about buying sperm from
fertility banks or adopting children of different races. They
recount how their personal and social histories intersected to
enable them to pursue their dream of motherhood, and how they
navigate daily life. What does it mean to be 'single' in terms of
romance and parenting? How do women juggle earning a paycheck with
parenting? What creative ways have women devised to shore up these
families? How do they incorporate men into their child-centered
families? This book provides concrete, informative answers to all
these questions.
A unique window on the future of the family, this book offers a
gold mine of insight and reassurance for any woman contemplating
this rewarding if unconventional step.
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