Soldier Chooses Her Son Over Her Service

No matter how loyal one is to the military, there’s not a parent alive who can’t sympathize with the predicament of Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old single mother and army cook who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because she had no one to care for her son. Hutchinson is currently confined to Hunter Army Field in Georgia and may face criminal charges, depending on what the Army’s investigators turn up. Continue reading »

UK Relents on Father’s Name on Birth Certificate

A measure that would have required all women in the UK to supply the name of a baby daddy in order to receive a birth certificate for their child has been abandoned.

And single mothers who don’t want anything to do with the sperm provider breathed a big sigh of relief. Continue reading »

TLC Officially Dumps Jon Gosselin

They’re halfway there! TLC’s head honcho officially announced they’ll be dumping Jon Gosselin from Jon and Kate Plus Eight.

From here on out, the show will be known as Kate Plus Eight. Anyone else wonder if they kept her because they couldn’t risk losing the rhyme? Continue reading »

Mom Wins Suit For Being Called Nazi Over Abortion

The single mother who won a suit against the Polish government’s ban on abortion has gained her second success: a Catholic newspaper will have to pay her for equating her attempts to have her pregnancy terminated with murder and the Nazi regime.

Alicja Tysiac was already a mother of two in 2000 when she became pregnant again. Eye doctors advised against carrying the pregnancy to term because she was likely to lose her vision, but doctors refused the terminate the pregnancy. Continue reading »

No Cash for Kid Born from Dead Man’s Sperm

A mom who opted to have her husband’s sperm collected post-mortem won’t be getting any financial help from the government to raise her.

Gabriela Vernoff’s husband died in an accident in 1995, but she had his sperm extracted and frozen so she could have their baby four years later, in 1999. Now, ten years later, she’s been told she cannot collect Social Security benefits on the dead man’s child because she wasn’t a dependent during his life. Continue reading »