Posted on 05/21/2006 11:55:33 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
This is scary. Very, scary.
Maybe society ought to be concentrating on raising men who are responsible. That is a huge problem in this Country.
I just want to echo and applaud your post. What you posted is exactly what is happening in this Country many many times over.
At least these women are thoughtfully and responsibly choosing to have children.
Are you saying a whackjob buys the result of a whackjob???
There's men and women that are selfish. Either of the sexes that choose to raise a kid in a one parent environment are hurting the kid and only thinking of their own satisfaction. The whole concept of family should be based on the nurturing of the kids, IMO.
I don't buy that view of IVF, but the fact is that the vast majority of these women are doing direct intrauterine insemination (IUI), not IVF, and thus the only embryos created are already inside them, just like the natural way. IVF costs about 20 times what IUI costs, and is rarely done unless repeated IUIs fail (in which case, doing it the natural way wouldn't have worked either).
Um.
Taking about a 'sucker' in a thread about sperm donors is... ummmm......
Y'know.
"The whole concept of family should be based on the nurturing of the kids, IMO."
I agree. But society today just isn't geared to doing that.
"Top Dollar Sperm Clinic
Beat your meat with us!
We pay wads of cash out daily"
Got it?
If you are single, make an effort to NOT to get pregnant.
If you are single and you get pregnant, seriously consider adoption to a loving couple.
My plastic doll seems so inadequate.
The statistics on outcomes for children raised by widows give lie to the myth that having a father in the home is essential to a child's well-being. The outcomes for children raised by widowed mothers are virtually identical to those of children raised in two-parent homes. Bulk statistics on outcomes for children of single mothers are massively skewed by the huge phenomenon of welfare-home teens girls having babies with street-gang young men who are also from welfare homes. Kids who are raised by just a mother do just fine if the mother is a decent person. And kids with teenage welfare moms wouldn't do any better if their thuggish fathers lived with them (they'd probably just join a street gang a little sooner). The children of these financially self-sufficient, educated, employed single-mothers-by-choice, will do just as well as the children of widows. Of which there will unfortunately be quite a lot in this coming generation, due to the large number of young men being killed in the war. Good for you for raising a child on your own!
I have to agree that that is the case with many people but not the case with many. Our society should return to the era of a family oriented society and it has to start somewhere. The first step should be to firm up the way marriage is looked upon and encourage raising kids by a mother and a father.
That's weird - I'd've guessed pissant.
"If you are single and you get pregnant, seriously consider adoption to a loving couple."
That maybe a choice that you find for you.
I see nothing wrong with choosing to raise a child yourself out of wedlock.
What concerns me most is how will these young fatherless children learn how to burp strange noises or realize they dont have to run to the bathroom to ease one out?
This could be a very big problem.
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