Single mom by choice announcement

In American culture — and beyond — there’s an expectation that marriage comes before motherhood.There’s also a stereotype that single mothers are the result of unwanted or unintended pregnancies or the product of absent fathers.

I spent three years deciding whether or not to become a Mother on my own. During that time I worried a lot about how I would tell people that I had gotten knocked up by a sperm donor. The words stalled in my brain. I worried what people would think and what they might say....Read the full article

A single mother by choice explains her path to motherhood by using a sperm donor to get pregnant, and the joys of raising a child alone.

"I remember telling my friends and family that if I wasn’t married or in a serious relationship bound for marriage by the age of 30, I was going to have a baby on my own. They laughed and told me I was crazy. Little did they know, I was completely serious."

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I recently "came out" with my pregnancy as a single mother by choice on Facebook, and I was surprised that the most common reaction to my post was "You're a badass!"