Very outdated; this book was originally published in 2006 but reads like it was written in the 1980s. Things like lamenting that child support is only based on current income, not imputed income, and that deadbeat dads will refuse to make their court-ordered payments and the court takes no action, both of which are no longer true. I personally found her casual, offhand mention of single middle-class women in America choosing to adopt from abroad as way of further erecting barriers between adopted children and birthmothers to be in particularly poor taste. It's written from a strongly second wave feminist point of view, and has some interesting insights from that perspective, but how much you enjoy this book will depend on how much you personally agree with that perspective.

This is far less of a 'how-to' for women considering single motherhood, and more of a women's studies retrospective on the phenomena. ( )