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By: Mombian » Blog Archive » Career and Motherhood: At Last, a Balance

Mombian » Blog Archive » Career and Motherhood: At Last, a Balance — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:29:40 +0000

[...] disclosure: I am a Wellesley alumna. I reviewed Hertz’s book, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice last fall.) Bookmark to: Posted on [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Opus Cartoon about Lesbian Moms Stirs Conservative Wrath

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:15:25 +0000

[...] At least two conservative writers, Glenn Sacks of the American Chronicle and Jennifer Roback Morse of Town Hall, have interpreted Breathed as being anti-dad and saying that all fathers are bad role models. Sacks links the cartoon to two books by feminist academics, Rosanna Hertz’s Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice (which I reviewed here) and Peggy Drexler’s Raising Boys Without Men (which I reviewed here; didn’t like her methodology, but admired her intent). He sees all three as sending the message “that kids don’t need fathers, that moms are better than dads, and that having two moms is better than having a mom and a dad.” Despite this, he claims to “support the rights of gays and lesbians to live their lives as they choose.” [...]

By: A Few Questions for Rosanna Hertz : OUPblog

A Few Questions for Rosanna Hertz : OUPblog — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:50:04 +0000

[...] These days there are all sorts of loving, supportive, unconvential familes. How did they emerge? What steps should a women take before raising a child on her own? These are exactlly the kind of questions Hertz sets out to answer in her new book. Below, Hertz answers some questions for OUP about Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice. Also, check out Rosanna’s live chat. [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Today Show Hosts Author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:08:45 +0000

[...] Last fall, I reviewed the excellent new book Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by sociologist Rosanna Hertz. Dr. Hertz will be on the Today show tomorrow, January 15, between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Eastern. If you are interested in how the American family is changing, I encourage you to watch it. [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Chat with Rosanna Hertz

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:56:18 +0000

[...] Welcome to those of you coming here for tonight’s chat with Rosanna Hertz, author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Reminder: Chat with Rosanna Hertz Here on September 26

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:43:59 +0000

[...] I will be hosting an online chat with Rosanna Hertz, author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family, on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, from 9-10 p.m. EDT. You can read my review of the book here. [...]

By: Gramma Pat Bauderer

Gramma Pat Bauderer — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:13:06 +0000

My grandmother was 14 years old, in 1914, when she became pregnant with my dear mother. I have no details about the man who biologically fathered my mom and neither did she. Grandma Mable had a choice, at 14, to end her life….end her pregnancy or continue to live and give birth to her baby. Her choice, to give birth to my mother in Feb. 1915 is the one and only reason that I, my sister, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are alive and exist…..today. That is the ‘Truth About Mom’ and all the moms’ on earth. We have made the choice, for life and birth, with or without a legal, marriage mate……since the beginning of all the human births on this planet earth. When will we be able to admit that every ‘mother’ is the true creator of the human species? Has any son of a mother, law-maker, deity/god/goddess given birth or life to any human offspring? Mothers’ are the only possessors of the human eggs of human life. The earth is populated with our creations from our own choices and our own bodies. That’s ‘The Truth About Mom’ and the truth about life on earth! Gramma Pat Bauderer

By: Gramma Pat Bauderer

Gramma Pat Bauderer — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:02:06 +0000

The Truth about mom, and motherhood, is that all mothers’ have made the choice to remain pregnant and to birth their offspring……..with or without a marriage contract. That has been the ‘normal’ response to the emotional, mental and physical event of discovery that one is going to bear a child. In the early 1900s’ the social and religious pressures to be married were ‘crushing’ to an unmarried, pregnant girl. My maternal grandmother chose to remain pregnant, give birth to my mother and to raise her without a ‘father figure’. Because of my grandmothers’ choice……I AM! Because of that choice the lives of my sister and I, all our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren exist today. We are the only mammals who continue to deny that we are the true ‘creators of life’ of our human species. Not one law-maker, not one son of a mother, not one deity/god or goddess has ever created the life of a single human being. That’s ‘The Truth About Mom from all moms’ on this earth.

By: Link Farm & Open Thread #37 « Creative Destruction

Link Farm & Open Thread #37 « Creative Destruction — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:57:28 +0000

[...] Mombian: Book Review of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice The American family has changed and is changing; we have a choice of either adapting to a changing reality, or fruitlessly trying to mau-mau everyone back into the 1950s. This book, which sounds excellent, is definitely taking the former approach. [...]