Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Contents
Making the decision and carrying it out -- Who is the single mother by choice? -- Becoming a single mother by conception -- Becoming a single mother by adoption -- Being a single mother by choice -- Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum -- The daddy issue -- Special child development issues for children of single mothers by choice -- Legal and moral aspects of being a single mother by choice -- Social life and the single mother by choice.