Choice Moms: Building Strong Families Together

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"Thank you for creating an invaluable resource of wisdom, insight and practical advice. I feel so much more prepared to embark on my single parenting journey." -- Sage

Welcome to the new thematic approach to the website. This month's topic:
ANSWERING OUR CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS.


At a Choice Moms gathering in Berkeley last year, the resident experts about "answering the daddy question" and "talking about the donor" were bombarded with questions from workshop participants. Since then, I've been figuring out ways to gather the "best of the best" in responding to the deer-in-headlights feeling we can get when our kids first start asking "do I have a dad?" and as their questioning gets more sophisticated over time: "but how did the donor get the sperm out?"

Here's what I've gathered together so far:

1. The best source about the kinds of questions we face, and how we respond to them, is from other Choice Moms. Listen to one of us in this short clip: a Choice Mom of 3-year-old twins, who has been in a relationship and is dealing with the fact that her daughters want to call the boyfriend "daddy." Recognize how much we can trip ourselves up as we confront these out-of-the-box situations.



2. Let's collect other amusing anecdotes on the website. Use this link to read one, from the Australian Choice Mom of three. Send your anecdotes to me here, and I'll add to the website.

3. The 50-minute CD "Do I Have a Dad?" is now available, and features interviews with four notable experts: long-time Single Mother by Choice leader Jane Mattes, authors/family psychologists Anne Bernstein and Diane Ehrensaft, and Donor Conception Network leader Olivia Montuschi, author of the excellent "Telling and Talking" guides.

4. Listen to the Choice Chat podcast


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