Single mother by choice - Them Before Us

Michael R.’s story | “It is a no-true-win situation for a child to grow up as donor-conceived.”

by Them Before Us | Oct 17, 2023 | Stories

I was a donor-conceived (IVF) child and a twin born in 1995. My mother desperately wanted to have children but with no prospect of a traditional family. She lived in central California in the 90’s and was near a larger IVF facility. She proceeded to try multiple...

Shocking New York Times Article Illuminates That In Vitro Fertilization Means Babies Built To Order

by Katy Faust | Jun 30, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published at The Federalist) York Times contributor Alicia Lombardini just chronicled her obsession with becoming a single mother through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with a stranger’s sperm. The June 15 autobiographical article, titled “I did IVF without...

“…I was just filled with anger all the time. That’s all I really feel about my existence. Anger.”

by Them Before Us | Jun 16, 2021 | EXPORT, Stories

(Originally published on AnonymousUs) Growing up it was just my mom, my two very involved godparents and me. I always knew I was missing a biological father. I always had to explain to my friends since the age of five why I don’t have a dad. I liked it, I got...

Maggie’s story | “I’ll never fully heal from having an absent father and being raised by a single mother.”

by Them Before Us | May 27, 2019 | Stories

I grew up as an only child of a single mother, and as a young kid I never really questioned it. My father had been around briefly when I was born up until age 3. I saw him a few times a year after that, and then not at all from ages 5-11. It seemed so simple to me...