Press/Media Links

1. More Florida mothers staying single by choice
   TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
   "We are no longer living in a culture where motherhood alone is condemned," said sociologist Rosanna Hertz, author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. ...

• Men, money and marriage
  by Katie Allison Granju
  "The male ego as head of household seems to have diminished to the point of disappearance," said Rosanna Hertz, chair of Women's Studies at Wellesley College and one of the researchers involved in the Elle/msnbc.com study....
  
  

• "New Analysis of Fertility Trends"
  
  Love, Marriage.....and Baby Carriages?
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY,USA
  ....please contact Rosanna Hertz, Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology
  and Women's Studies, Wellesley College, rhertz@wellesley.edu, 617-566-4331...
  (pdf version of article)
  
  

• Going Solo
  
  The Boston Globe, Maggie Jackson, November 4, 2007
  
  "The child really becomes the focal point of their lives," says Rosanna Hertz, a sociology professor at Wellesley College and author of "Single by Chance, ...
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• Generation eXXception
  
  The Huffington Post, Emily Amick and Rosanna Hertz, November 6, 2007
  
  Rosanna Hertz is the Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the auther of the recent book Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. Emily Amick is a Knight Community Journalism ...
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• Knocking Yourself Up
  
  Newsweek, Lorraine Ali, November 5, 2007
  
  " "It's provocative, this question of 'Do men bring something unique in the raising of a child?'?" says Hertz, chair of the women's studies department at Wellesley College. "The women in my study go to extremes in finding men who will help raise their children—uncles, grandparents, a best friend from college. This is not about creating a world without men."
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• The Secret to a Woman's Success
  
  NBC Today Show, October 15, 2007
  
  On the Today Show this morning, a segment, "The Secret to A Woman's
  Success," was aired. It featured Wellesley's Rosanna Hertz, women's
  studies, as the expert resource. Click here to view the segment online at MSNBC.com
  
  
  
• In Silicon Valley, few women reach top jobs
  
  Mercury News, Mark Schwanhausser, October 16, 2007
  
  "If you begin to look at the skill sets high school girls have, there are lots of people who could be recruited," Hertz said. "But somebody has to decide that girls are worth recruiting....
  
  
  
• The Daddy Track
  
  The Boston Globe, July 2007
  
  "Society is really changing," says Rosanna Hertz, a Wellesley College professor of sociology and women's studies. "What we're seeing is more and more men..
  
  
• Lifestyle: Give Single Mums By Choice A Chance
  
  Sin Chew Daily - Malaysia, June 2007
  
  Most are not men-haters out to undermine two-parent families, according to Rosanna Hertz, author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women Are ...
  
  
• Fathers Need a Chance
  
  Rio Rancho Observer - Rio Rancho,NM,USA, June 2007
  
  Men are expected to be on duty regardless of family circumstance - what Wellesley College professor Rosanna Hertz calls the "test of manhood" at work. ....
  
  
• Corporate Culture Must Start Giving Dads a Chance
  
  Azle (Tex.) News Online, By Martha Burk, June 14, 2007
  
  Rosanna Hertz, women’s studies, serves as an expert resource in this essay on the pressures faced by fathers in the workplace. Even in companies with family-friendly policies like time off for teacher meetings and the birth of children, men are not expected to take advantage of such opportunities; those who do are often seen as less serious and committed workers. Hertz calls this phenomenon the “test of manhood,” which challenges fathers to choose between spending time with their kids and maintaining career success at work.
  
  
• Women Hedge Bets By Banking Their Eggs
  
  Washington Post, By Rob Stein, 5/13/2007
  
  As the number of women delaying motherhood continues to rise, many fertility clinics are starting to offer a new service that allows them to freeze some of their eggs to buy more time on their biological clocks.
  
  
• Solo Journey to Motherhood a Choice, Challenge
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune, By Jennifer Barrett, 5/13/2007
  
  They feel like they have to choose," said Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. ...
  
  
• Ser Mujer y no tener hijos uno opcion valida
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  Rumbo, Lilian Cadavid, 5/2007
  
  
  
• When kids become confidants
  
  StarTribune.com, By Gail Rosenblum, 3/16/2007
  
  "Typically the most powerful duo in the household is two adults, generally Mom and Dad...."
  
  
• Female bosses carry child care burden — survey
  
  MSNBC, By Allison Linn, 3/08/2007
  
  “The culture of work is still not very sympathetic to working parents,” said Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and author of “Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice.”
  
  
• Single Parenting,2007
  
  
  The Buffalo News, By Charity Vogel, News Staff Reporter, 2/11/07
  
  "As the ranks of solo moms and dads increase, many say the challenges are growing, too
• Postmodern Families
  
  
  London Times: The Times Literary Supplement
  
  "In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett’s ageing and still single friend Charlotte Lucas is, at twenty-seven, faced with a kind of Hobson’s choice" (pdf version of article)
  
  
• Unmarried, with Children
  
  Seattle Times(syndicated column)Tom Plate, February 8,2007
  
  There is a growing sense among experts that the countries of the world with declining birth rates will somehow overcome their problem -- but in ways that until recently would have been hard to imagine.
  
  
• Coping with the population crisis
  
  Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA, February, 2007
  
  
  The author, Rosanna Hertz, is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College, the excellent women's school which numbers Hillary Clinton (class of '69) among ...
  
  
  
• Feature: And baby makes two
  
  NW Women's Journal, February, 2007
  
  
  Single moms are not looking to make their kids into social experiments. They just want to be good moms.
  
  
• Bookstore Balances Family and Work
  
  
  Pasadenastarnews.com, By MaryJane O'Brien, January 24,2007
  
  
  The delicate balance between work and family is a concern for all women, according to Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and author of "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice."

• NBC Today Show
  
  
  NBC’s Today Show segment including Rosanna Hertz, author of SINGLE BY CHANCE, MOTHERS BY CHOICE, aired on January 15, 2007.
  
  
  
• Dreams of Motherhood
  
  Diverse: Issues in Higher Education,By Kelleen Kaye,December 14,2006
  
  Women’s studies professor examines the maternal aspirations held by many single women.
  
  
• Pg 69:"Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice"
  
  Campaign for the American Reader Blog, December 8, 2006
  
  But Rosanna Hertz's fascinating in-depth study shows that the former Vice President was wrong. Today's Murphy Browns--middle-class, self-supporting single mothers by choice--are not trying to score ideological points...
  
  
• First Comes Junior in a Baby Carriage
  
  Newsweek, December 4, 2006
  
  Four in 10 kids are now born to unmarried moms. (word doc. version of article)
  
  
• Interview in Crescer Magazine
  
  Crescer Magazine, Brazil, November, 2006
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• Having It All
  
  Washington Post, November 26, 2006
  
  It's impossible to do justice here to the complexity of the portraits Hertz paints in this well-crafted book, including the different ways that women handle the often unexpected results of their decisions.
  
  
• And baby makes two
  
  The Christian Science Monitor, By Rosanna Hertz, October 30, 2006
  
  Single motherhood is on the rise for women in their mid-30s to early 40s.
  
  
  
• The choice is all theirs
  
  The Boston Globe,By Susan Chaityn Lebovits, October 29, 2006
  
  Two decades ago Rosanna Hertz helped pioneer research into the growing trend of two-income families. Now she's out with a new book on what she sees as another emerging trend: single women choosing to have children. In "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice, the Wellesley professor writes about women who have "lost in the lottery of love." They have decided not to put motherhood on hold until they find a partner.
  
  
  
• Are single mothers the 'New American Family'?
  
  WorldNetDaily, By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks, November 3, 2006, posted September 28, 2006
  
  Call it the backlash against the backlash. Over the past decade, Americans have increasingly understood that the divorce revolution, fatherlessness and single parent households are harming our children. Now those who view the traditional family as disadvantageous to women are firing back, defending women who choose single motherhood and depicting fathers as superfluous. . . .
  
  This month Oxford Press released Wellesley College Women's Studies professor Rosanna Hertz's "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family."
  
  
  
• A Few Questions for Rosanna Hertz
  
  Oxford University Press, blog.oup.com
  
  These days there are all sorts of loving, supportive, unconvential familes. How did they emerge? What steps should a women take before raising a child on her own? These are exactlly the kind of questions Hertz sets out to answer in her new book. Below, Hertz answers some questions for OUP about Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice.
  
  
• Press release for Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice
  
  October 1, 2006
  
  Press release announcing publication of "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice" (PDF document --132 kb)
  
  
• Book Review for Single by Chance,Mothers by Choice
  
  Mombian Sustenance for Lesbian Moms, September, 2006
  
  The American family is changing. That should come as no surprise to readers of this blog.....
  
  
  
• Infertile in a Baby-Crazed World
  
  Glamour Magazine,By Lynn Harris, September, 2006
  
  When you finally have that sacred child,” says Rosanna Hertz, Ph.D., professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice, “the baby isn’t just part of life, it’s likely the center of life.”
  
  
  
• More single women are turning to the Internet sperm banks to achieve their dreams of motherhood
  
  MySA.com, S.A. Life, By Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, January 29,2006
  
  
  Hertz says single moms have learned that, thanks to technology and the Internet, they don't have to "settle" for a less-than-optimal mate to have children. The pressure of the ticking biological clock is off.

• Un bébé d'abord, le père ensuite
  
  LePointe, By Emmanuel Saint-Martin, November, 2005
  
  Kristy Day venait d'avoir 35 ans. « J'avais passé les dernières années à chercher "Mr Right" [le bon], sans jamais le trouver. L'idée que je n'aurais pas de bébé était simplement inacceptable...
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• First Comes the Baby Carriage
  
  The New York TImes, By Amy Harmon, October 13, 2005
  
  "Women who order sperm are engaged in a kind of agency that is new and is gaining momentum," said Rosanna Hertz, a sociologist at Wellesley College who is working on a book called "When Baby Makes Two." "It's different from women who adopt, who are not breaking sexual norms.
  
  
• Unmarried, With Children
  
  Newsweek, By Barbara Kantrowicz and Pat Wingert, May 28, 2001
  
  Today’s single mothers may be divorced or never-wed, rich or poor, living with men or on their own. But with traditional households in decline, they’re the new faces of America’s family album.