Posted on 05/30/2013 1:28:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it all alone. Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 2½ years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child.
“Was it worthwhile? Well, I’m thinking of doing it again, aren’t I?” she says.
Everson and women like her are part of a shift in American society. An Associated Press–WE TV poll of people under 50 found that more than 2 in 5 unmarried women without children—or 42 percent—would consider having a child on their own without a partner, including more than a third, or 37 percent, who would consider adopting solo.
The poll, which addressed a broad range of issues on America's changing family structures, dovetails with a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau that single motherhood is on the rise: It found that of 4.1 million women who’d given birth in 2011, 36 percent were unmarried at the time of the survey, an increase from 31 percent in 2005. And among mothers 20-24, the percentage was 62 percent, or six in 10 mothers. …
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Have at it.
I don’t care how hard you make things fer yerself
Even Candace Bergen admitted later that Dan Quayle was right.
2 of 5 women would parent solo, as long as they can live off the fruit of the taxpayer’s labor.
Did I forget selfish also?
You’re wrong. That was Murphy Brown who said that.......
Very true. And I think a lot more than 42% consider “solo” a reasonable fall-back position when they get tired of trying to maintain a relationship with a man.
Well, fornication killed marriage faster than anything else, and it is one of the more condoned ‘sins’ in American society, with the vast majority indulging in it.
The result will be a society ripe for takeover by cultures that curb it. The family unit evolved in human societies to promote the kind of stability needed for human development of the kind whose fruits we enjoy today.
Worldwide.
My husband died the same year the baby was born. Exemplary child, now an admirable adult. I was the oldest lady in the maternity ward, and it was hard work, but the best work I ever did! Credit to God and good homeschooling. That aside, people who don't know better, exhibit foolish prejudice quite often. All the attitudes in display on this thread are unpleasantly familiar to me.
I have great respect for you single moms out there who have lost a husband or through other circumstances were forced to raise children on your own.
I think what I have a problem with are women like the ones I know who have deliberately CHOSEN single motherhood.
In my mind, there is something creepy (and desperate) about choosing to have the kids of a guy you don’t even know. At least if you have a fling its accidental. This is on purpose.
Most single parents I know aren't single parents by choice. Someone takes off, divorces, or exhibits behavior (adultery usually) that causes the divorce.
I don't know how atheists think of this, but it seems to me that God and nature collaborated in developing a system which, while requiring the very best efforts of humans (for whom that which is worked for is that which is prized), also matches their deepest nature, both physically and otherwise -- namely that of a commitment in love.
This age has made clear that a "family" is not something that just happens but, as Ursula K. LeGuin implied, is something that needs to be made daily, like bread. And it is MY belief that a child understands, though subconsciously, the choice his parents make, whether to stay together, mostly for his benefit, or to part, mostly for theirs.
In the language of traditional Christianity, God himself is like a family. It is no accident that the terms "Father" and "Son" are used for two persons of the Trinity, while the Holy Spirit is nothing other than the love which flows between them.
Finally, there seems to be at least a plausible argument that the family, the intimate association based on a commitment in love, and religion. Mary Eberstadt,one of my faves, makes a compelling argument here.
My parents divorced 38 years ago, I was 4. I have no doubt this event had a greater effect on my life than any other event since.
Children need security. Not just financial, but the security that both Mom and Dad are going to be there for them.
My children will never have to go through that.
Yes, the attitudes are disappointing. Broad-brush painting without the experiences we were blessed to have, it would seem. We can pray that they will find a way to be kinder. Thank you.
This is the case of deliberately creating the babies to grow up in a single-parent environment rather than being an unintentional single parent, though. Abortion does not enter this equation.
This is not what the scenario described in this article is about. These are women deliberately choosing single parenthood and shutting out any other option. The traditional family is the basic unit of society.
((About a third to a half of the population are complete fools))
Actually it’s 51.1 percent, according to the last election.
There’s a difference between those who choose a path and between those chosen for a path.
The point is, that 2 in 5 women have such arrogant egos that they want children for *their* satisfaction, not for their child’s life.
Think of it as “child materialism”. A child to them is property, a possession, the mother’s accomplishment.
They are Mommie Dearest, with children as props for the photo op.
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