Single Moms

Invisible Fathers at the Olympic Games

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 08.19.2008 | Living


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Aside from the moment of conception, are men even necessary? If a single mother can produce the greatest Olympic champion of all time, do we even need dads?

You Can Take the Sperm Out of the Man, But Can You Take the Man Out of the Sperm?

Louise Sloan | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living


Louise Sloan

Sperm bank customers pretend that what they're buying is a "gamete," which came from the gamete factory, not from a living man whose traits and looks they may find duplicated in their child.

What Baby Mama Is Missing

Louise Sloan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment


Louise Sloan

The Tina Fey film could have been even funnier and a lot less predictable if it had taken its cue from real single moms by choice.

Is Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living


Louise Sloan

Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?

Single Mom, Serial Killer

Louise Sloan | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living


Louise Sloan

I was prepared for most of the ways in which single motherhood can be lonely and hard, but there were some details they left out of the manual. Like, how do you get rid of the Christmas tree?

More Women Not Seeking Marriage

Mikki Morrissette | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living


Mikki Morrissette

An article this week reinvigorates the debate about whether it is good or bad that more single women are replacing Mr. Right with a turkey baster in order to "knock themselves up."