Things sure are different from 1959 when I was growing up. [How many of the girls in my high school class are on their 2nd or 3rd husbands?]
Modern times? Jennifer Egan writes for the magazine section of the New York Times today about young (and not so young) ladies -- career girls who've been unsuccessfully looking for "Mr. Right" -- who are electing to bypass the love and marriage and go right to the baby carriage. They're buying sperm online and talking about their experiences on a listserv "Single Mothers By Choice."
See, Wanted: A Few Good Sperm in the March 19, 2006 New York Times.
Parentage issues have long been of special interest to Jeanne Hannah. For more information on parentage issues, you may read articles on Jeanne Hannah's website.
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