Researcher Kylie Baldwin, who asked a group of women why they froze their eggs, said: 'I think they were looking for a hands-on father.
'And it was the absence of this particular type of potential father, not just the absence of any partner, that led them to freeze the eggs.
'It's not just about not having the right partner, it's about having the right dad for their child.'
Interestingly, some of the women were in a relationships – but froze their eggs because they didn't believe their partner was father material and were hoping someone better would come along.
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This reminds me of something with which I like to tease my wife. We have a daughter that looks nothing like her and acts nothing like her. I like to tell her "Babe, I have something to tell you. I cheated on you and she isn't your baby."
First episode of "once upon a time" says otherwise
Except when you were in a Indian bollywood flick...
No, you can just be the one who ends up raising a kid on your own because the dad/sperm donor skipped town/was abusive/denied responsibility/disappeared, etc.
What a perk!
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.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts even acknowledged the mother’s actions during a press conference early Tuesday morning.
“And if you saw in one scene, you had one a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight,” Batts said.
Mr Emwazi Snr was questioned along with one of his sons for most of the day on Sunday after being summoned by police.
"The mother recognised the voice and she screamed 'that is my son' while he was talking before beheading the first American hostage," a source familiar with the Kuwaiti investigation said. "When they played the video again, the father was sure it was his son."
Insiders described Mr Emwazi as "emotional and upset at what had happened to his son" while talking to investigators.
"I am waiting day-by-day to hear about his death," he is said to have told his interrogators."
The octopus generally does not feed while brooding, but most don’t brood anywhere near as long.
“The principal question now remaining,” they write, (link) “is how does the mother survive for so long?”
He was glistening and green, hot orange underneath.
“Look at his stomach,” my daughter said from the curb, lifting the box to the car window. “Fire-bellied. Look.”
“Wow,” I said. “What a color for a belly. Very exciting.”
“You have to spray him with this water bottle and feed him crickets,” she explained, raising up the bottle and arranging herself and her new companion in the back seat. “Ten a week.”
“Ten, really,” I said, calculating the mileage to the pet store.
“Ten live ones. They don’t eat them if they’re dead.”