Boston Book Review
"[This book] is the culmination of almost a decade of writing, research, soul-searching, friendship building, and above all sustained and sensitive listening, a refreshing blast of truth-telling and real life for our repressed time, and an answer to those who would use these women's lives only as a vehicle to forward a political agenda." 09/1997New York Times Book Review
"[Ludtke] is at her writerly best describing the agonizing decision to become a single parent....And she is at her journalistic best sifting through the research on single motherhood and its grievous demographic correlates...." 10/05/1997 Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[This book] is a perceptive study based on extensive interviews with several dozen representatives, ranging from poverty-stricken teens to real-life Murphy Browns, those successful career women in their 30s and 40s who are suddenly eager to have kids of their own, on their own." 11/30/1997 |
