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Adopting as a Single Woman

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The past few decades have brought a previously never seen and a remarkable increase in the number of families headed by single mothers. Yet unlike the stereotypical images conjured up by the general population of an un-wed, poverty-stricken, uneducated, and abandoned young teen or woman facing parenthood alone and ostracized, an increasing number of successful single well-educated professional women in their 30s and 40s are arriving at motherhood by choice and through adoption. Advocates note the number of both domestic Read More

Retiring Single

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Retiring single is much less daunting than in prior generations. Part of the reason is that it’s now socially acceptable. Women desire independence, but don’t want to be disconnected from people. This is actually easy to achieve when your social network of friends and family is well developed and local. I believe that it’s not only acceptable to retire single, but it can be more rewarding. Single women often have a much broader social network than married women. A recently Read More