Websites for Single Mothers:www.singlemothersbychoice.org (which is run by Jane Mattes, author of the classic book "Single Mothers by Choice") www.choicemoms.org (which has a great hour long digital interview with experts offering recommendations on answering "the Daddy question" and a new ebook on genetic considerations in choosing a sperm donor with input by Anne Morriss of GenePeeks) |
Books we recommend:"Love is a Family" by Roma Dowley
(Very helpful in facilitating discussions about how every family is different but what makes a family is love). "Who's in a Family?" by Robert Kutch (Looks at a wide variety of families--some with only fathers, some with only mothers, some where kids move back and forth between parents, some headed by grandmothers: what they all have in common is love). "Why Don't I have a Daddy?" by George Ann Clay (This book directly tackles the question of donor conception when a young lion cub asks his mother why he doesn't have a daddy who lives with them when others do. The mother tells the young cub he does have a father, but that his father is a donor father. Again, the strong message is that love is "what matters is not how many people you have in your family but how much love you share). |
