[higgmeister]

I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion.

Find some bootstraps and a life!

None of us are asked to be born into whatever situation we find ourselves.

Life is hard for all of us.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"How is this any different from adoption where nothing is known about either parent?"

It's similar in some ways. An adopted child can long to know who his parents were.

But it's different in that adoption is usually a compassionate response to a sad fait accompli -- an existing child whose parentless situation is an acknowledged tragedy. And the adoptive parents are attempting, to the best of their ability, to supply what the child needs to thrive.

But in this case, the child was brought into existence into deliberate, intentional, designed fatherlessness. She was begotten via a commercial transaction to satisfy her mother's desires. From the git-go, the adult's wants were more important than the child's needs.

This is what makes it different.

This is what makes it wrong.

[Albion Wilde]

Find some bootstraps and a life! None of us are asked to be born into whatever situation we find ourselves. Life is hard for all of us.

This is a callous attitude. If you believe this, then conservatives have no argument with liberals who create welfare ghettos through their policies -- where's the harm? You need to rethink what it takes to make a successful, productive citizen capable of giving back to society more than he or she takes away. Single parenthood is a demonstrably unpromising route to achieve a high-quality citizenry.