I don't have much in the way of original thoughts to write about today. This house business knocked the stuffing out of me. I went out of town for the long weekend and was able to recharge my batteries a bit. And now I have the approaching spectre of packing up the house on the horizon.
Flipping yay.
So, since I promised myself to finish my workbook and dossier paperwork this month, I'm devoting my spare time to that... plus watching Lost: The Answers and the American Idle finale.
So, to add some substance to this post, here's a really good article I came across a while back. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. It focuses on Canadian women, but I'm guessing the stats are similar around the world.
It reinforces what I have happily discovered to be true - that there are many single women like me who are choosing to start their family on their own. I have met so many amazing, single women these past few months - women who are strong, intelligent, loving, resourceful, and just plain fab! I feel so blessed to be able to count so many of them as my friends - those I have met and those I am yet to meet.
I can not say enough how much it has meant to me to meet these wonder women! To have trail blazers ahead of me in the adoption process who I can look to for wisdom and advice and reassurance, to have those closer to my stage of the journey, women I can give and get advice from. To have people assure me that I've not yet lost my mind and that I have every right to follow this dream of mine.
Anyway, enough of that. Here's the article I was yakking about.
Singling out Canadian single moms
by Mary Leighton
Excerpt:
Regardless of how people feel about single motherhood, also referred to as female lone parenthood, statistics show that it is increasingly common. Canada has more than one million single mothers, based on the 2001 Statistics Canada census, and the number has been steadily rising. Between 1991 and 2001 alone there was a 35 per cent increase in the number of female lone-parent families. There was also a significant rise in the number of male lone-parent families. Combined, they make for more than one in seven Canadian families (15.6 per cent), with female lone-parent families making up 81 per cent of that number.
Read more: http://www.ubyssey.bc.ca/2007/03/09/singling-out-canadian-single-moms/
