
[Bookmark] When Christine Coppa, a writer for Glamour magazine, learned that she had accidentally conceived when she was 26, then learned that her boyfriend would not be staying to help, she became a Choice Mom forced to quickly decide to become the best single parent she could be for her son. What she suddenly left behind was a Carrie Bradshaw-like social life with roommates and cocktails in Manhattan, in exchange for pacifiers and burps in suburbia. Now the author of Rattled! A Memoir, Christine will talk with host Mikki Morrissette about how her two-year journey has gone so far.
Mikki Morrissette is author of Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman’s Guide, published by Harcourt/Houghton-Mifflin. The book was recently ranked #2 in Amazon’s Single Parents category, and won a 2008 Mom’s Choice Award.
Mikki is moderator of the ChoiceMoms.org website, which features podcasts, blogs, webcasts, articles and other resources for the Choice Mom community, including the books “Choice Moms Guide to Fertility,” “Choice Moms Guide to Adoption,” “Voices of Donor Conception,” and the CD “Do I Have a Dad? Choice Moms Answer the Tough Questions.”
She has offered workshops and networking events in San Francisco, New York City, and Minneapolis. Upcoming 2009 events are planned in D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, and ... More »
Each year, thousands of professional single women are proactively choosing to become mothers on their own. How do we do it? Why do we do it? And what do we need to know in order to single-handedly raise our children to be the best they can be?
This show is for current Choice Moms (single mothers by choice) and women thinking about or trying to become Choice Moms, but its insights and discussions with experts and parents are applicable to anyone involved in single parenting.
The mission of “Choosing Single Motherhood” is to create a supportive, welcoming, educational environment for single women who consciously decide to become mothers without
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