Choosing Single Motherhood Quotes

“The focus on the structure of families has ignored what is most important to any child's ethical development: an ongoing, trusting relationship with at least one adult who is ethical and mature, and who listens and encourages without shying away from his or her moral authority. A mountain of research now shows that it is the content of adult/child interactions, not the structure of families, that most strongly determines the shape of children's ethical development.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“Children who never lived with their fathers or never knew their fathers do not feel the same kind of anger as children who experience their parents' separation directly.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“A theme we'll return to several times in this book: Being a good parent is more important than being a married parent.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“With the divorce rate over 50 percent, your odds of becoming a single mother are greater than your odds of staying married. So is it selfish to have children in a marriage knowing that statistically you are likely to divorce, thereby destroying the family that your child has come to know? Aren't children better off, or at least as well off, with only one parent than starting off with two parents and having that family ripped apart?”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“The world needs more kids who are raised by a loving person who actively chooses parenthood.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“Life reveals itself in ways you cannot control or predict, so allow yourself to mourn that plans are not going according to schedule, but don't let it stop you from moving. Life has surprises in store for you if you just keep walking.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“I strongly believe that a relationship can add to our existing life. But only when we have met our own needs first. The question for all of us to answer is: Do we need the man before having the child, or not?”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“You could have the confidence of Joan of Arc, but no matter who you are there will be many moments spent wondering if you have what it takes to be a Good Mother.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“Every man I dated I was looking at as potential father material for my child, not as a partner for myself," she told me. "I pushed them away by wanting to be a mom so bad. I wanted to fast-forward everything to know if it was going to work." Some women believe it is more responsible to have a child alone than to get married for the sake of having a child.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“I define a Choice Mom as someone who proactively seeks to become a nurturing mother on her own.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide – Expert Advice on Adoption, Donors, Solo Parenting, and Your Child's Questions

“Life reveals itself in ways you cannot control or predict, so allow yourself to mourn that plans are not going according to schedule, but don’t let it stop you from moving. Life has surprises in store for you if you just keep walking.”
― Mikki Morrissette, Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide