Where are all the Single Mother By Choice Romances?
I’ve noticed a gap in the romance department that needs to be addressed… Where are all the Single Mother By Choice Romances?
They’re missing! And women need them!
As the human race continues to live longer, and with the ability to have children later in life, it’s only natural that there are women choosing to have children on their own. From my personal experience, at the ripe age of 37 and 3/4th, I know many women all across the world looking into:
- egg freezing
- IUI (Intrauterine insemination)
- IVF (In vitro fertilisation)
- adoption
- foster care
- surrogacy
I hate to be the one to tell the romance book community this but … not all single mothers come from an abusive/”failed marriage”, being a widow, and/or taking in a sibling/niece/nephew!
Which is why I ask, yet again…
Where are all the Single Mother By Choice Romances?
Over the past three years, I’ve gone through 112 books. Through that journey, I’ve read ONE book that was about a pregnant woman in her late 30s who simply hadn’t found “the one” and thus decided to tackle motherhood on her own.
I loved the entire premise around it. I loved everything about that character because she’s someone I would be friends with. In the book, she also managed her family’s Inn and had a loving and supportive community.
And guess what? She got the happy ending she deserved.
Is that so much to ask?
So, a huge thank you to Susan Mallery for writing the only SMBC romance book I could find: The Christmas Wedding Guest.
Conclusion
There’s an entire genre missing in our romance world and I need more authors to take it seriously. Women deserve happy endings when they decide to have a child alone. It’s one of the hardest decisions of their lives! That said, your life doesn’t end. Your prospects don’t diminish. A majority of the time, your life is just beginning!
Let women have careers. Let women have incredible and strong relationships with their girlfriends and family. Show the relationships that don’t work!
Then PLEASE, for the love of God, show true romance by allowing women not to settle early in life and giving them time to find love later.
Sigh.
End rant.
If you got through that, thank you so much for reading this random post. I just cannot hold it in anymore.
That said if you DO know any books with a single mother by choice as the main character, please please please drop them in the comments below. I will be forever grateful. 💕
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