Rosanna Hertz: 2 books

Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

by Rosanna Hertz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they...

Random Families

Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin

by Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018

The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form meaningful connections that blossom into...