r/SingleParentsByChoice

149 archived posts · Apr 2021 – Apr 2026

Prioritizing Parenthood Over Partnership

r/SingleParentsByChoice is a community of individuals who have chosen to embark solo on the journey to parenthood, utilizing alternative family building methods such as sperm or egg donation, embryo donation, surrogacy, adoption, fostering, and/or platonic co-parenting.

Created Apr 29, 2021

324Members (last snapshot)

149Archived posts

#Who We Are

As single parents by choice, we are individuals who have chosen to embark solo on the path to parenthood. We are parents via donor conception, embryo donation, adoption, foster care, or a mutual agreement with a platonic friend.

#Community Rules

Respect the choice and path to go it alone.

How not being respectful can look:
- Trying to change a user's mind when this has not been requested.
- Arguing with a user over their chosen path.
- Ridiculing a user's decision.
- Offering resources to a user which are not applicable to their chosen path or help request but applicable to what one feels is the ideal path.
- Maintaining that there is only one 'right.'
Cultivate a welcoming environment.

r/SingleParentsByChoice welcomes:
- Women.
- Men.
- Non-binary.
- Trans.
- LGBQIA+.
- You.
No soliticing.

No soliticing:
- a recipient parent.
- an intended parent (surrogacy).
- an adoptive/foster placement.
- a donor.
- a surrogate.
- a co-parenting arrangement.
No debates surrounding the ethics of surrogacy.

Discussion about surrogacy ethics is a complex and sensitive topic. To maintain a supportive environment, we kindly request that members refrain from engaging in debates about the ethics of surrogacy. While we understand that this is a significant issue, our community aims to focus on providing support and resources related to solo choice parenthood and alternative paths to family building.

Surrogacy news welcome.
Relevant to voluntary single parenthood.

This community focuses on issues related to voluntary single parenthood through alternative family-building paths. While we empathize with challenges faced by single parents by circumstance due to abandonment, custody, or co-parenting disagreements, please note that such topics are more suitable for communities like r/Singlemoms, r/SingleDads, r/SingleParents, r/Custody, r/Childsupport, or r/DivorcedDads.

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