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title: "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family"
brand: "rosanna hertz"
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# Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

**Brand:** rosanna hertz
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- **What is this?** Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by rosanna hertz
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Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

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## Customer Reviews

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    It's good, but not perfect.
  

*by H***? on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2012*

I am a 37 year old widow with one child and am considering the possibility of adopting an older child and having a baby, either with a known or anonymous donor.  I liked that the author raised issues pertinent to conceiving or adopting a child on your own, but I felt alienated by this book.  It was directed toward aging single women who were considering conceiving on their own *for the first time.*  I am a single woman who wants more family.  I want my son to have siblings and want him to have the type of support system that comes as a result of being raised in a nuclear family.  Considering that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that many young women become widowed and choose to not remarry, I think it was somewhat short sighted of the author to focus solely on women who had never married or had other children.  I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only single mom out there who would like to have a family for her child or children.  Should women like me have to find some man to provide for us and our kids?  I don't think so.Also, the author seems to have a bias against women accepting any sort of government assistance.  Because I am widowed my child and I receive Social Security benefits.  I took offense when she made a point of writing in the follow-up section of the book that the women in her study were not financially ruined and receiving government assistance as a result of their choice to have children without a partner, then turned around and praised the women for being resourceful and securing Pell grants for their college aged kids.That said, it was a really good book.  I liked it a lot.  It was well written, easy to read, provided A LOT of information (though most of it was very general), and provided me with ideas for utilizing resources I'd not previously considered and a glimpse of what may lie ahead for my family.

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    Better Than Expected
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2020*

I came into reading this book with low expectations based on some of the previous reviews, but I enjoyed it greatly. It's newer than many of the other books I've read of the subject - of which there isn't a large selection to begin with - and it's very thoughtfully put together. There are personal stories of women who arrived at single motherhood in many different ways, and also analytical breakdowns of different matters related to single motherhood. A very good read, and definitely a more educated piece of work than many others.

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    Remarkable stories and compelling analysis
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2006*

Once in a while you read a book that opens your eyes.  This is one of those books:  a compelling account of how women from virtually every class and race surmount convention to have children, provide them with richly supportive -- if often improvised -- home and family, and fill in the gaps they feel separate them from the "normal" family.  Hertz has a gift for selecting the right stories to tell.  She also produces a clear sociological analysis of those stories without being overbearing or jargonistic.  This is a must for policymakers anxious to "save the American family."

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