{
  "id": 8444233,
  "title": "The Black women who choose to have children on their own: ‘We’re going in eyes open’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/the-black-women-who-choose-to-have-children-on-their-own-were-going",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-19T11:00:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/19/black-women-single-mothers-by-choice"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With growing support networks online and in person, these moms say they’re changing the narrative around Black single motherhood When Chamise Alston was ready to have a child, she connected her computer to her TV and scrolled through profiles with her best friend, dismissing people who seemed like the wrong fit. Unlike the average millennial on a dating app, Alston was scanning a sperm bank…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}