"Women who have never been in a relationship paying £5,000 to get pregnant"

"Doctors say women often don't want to wait for their ideal man"

Some are using the £5,000 fertility treatment to bypass the need to involve a man, and others so that they can save themselves for a ‘special relationship’.

Doctors said last night at least 25 straight women had given birth in the past five years despite being virgins. But campaigners for the traditional family said the ‘distorted’ move turned babies into little more than ‘teddy bears’ to be ‘picked off the shelf’.

Religious groups said it undermined the importance of bringing up children in a stable marriage, while a leading psychotherapist warned that having a mother who had never been in a relationship could harm a child’s development.

Couldn't the child be given a "leg up", an advantage by choosing the male contribution from a sperm bank of "supersmart people"? There was for a time such a sperm bank, but it closed in 1999.

Women who applied for Graham's genius sperm only had to come up a $50 application fee and $10 a month for storage and shipping costs, according to a 1984 New York Times article on the sperm bank. They had to be married (although there was an exception made for at least one single mother), but the mothers did not have to take an IQ test or go through any genetic screening.

Sprint's Framily

"These commercials reek with hatred and ridicule of men. Men are ridiculous, non-human, and they exist only for the purpose of paying the bills. Dad/Husband is just a dumb pet to be ignored by people with more important lives.

Godawful. Or, perhaps, this is really what we men have become.

I'm no political activist. I'm just an Old Dawg trying to get along and enjoy the years I have left.

I won't draw any conclusions for you. You can come to your own."

Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars

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I finally know what it is to have a jaw-dropping experience, or at least to recognize it as such; jaw jutted, shoulders hunched, head inclined, eyes narrowed, brow furrowed. And I felt....amazement? To hear dad talk, follow the link above.