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I think a father has a huge role to play in a child's life IF he is a good father. I would not intensionally demean the significants of a fathers role in a child's life by choosing AI unless I saw it as my only option.
Just speaking for experience as I have a wonderful father who has played a massive role in my upbringing. I would say at least 50/50. And I have a son who's father is absent and it's not something I would have choosen as I know how significant a fathers role is.
Just speaking for experience as I have a wonderful father who has played a massive role in my upbringing. I would say at least 50/50. And I have a son who's father is absent and it's not something I would have choosen as I know how significant a fathers role is.
Touche', I already knew that you had a great dad from the way you talked about him previously. I'm sure there's some people that have never experienced a really good dad, or for that matter a really good mom? Kind of sad, but it explains a lot of the disatisfaction in some of the Posts here.
My only concern would be the fact that she has a child, because I'm absolutely terrible with kids. If she told me how the child was conceived, my first thought would probably be "Wow, isn't it expensive to do that?"
I'd say "single mother" with artificial insemination is GENERALLY a better option than a conventional "single mom", if you talk about the mother of same age. She probably has better economical situation (or she might not, due to money spent on it, but still, she saved her money to do it), she's more of a family type, obviously. There isn't the father on the birth certificate not because he ran away but because she wanted children and she had nobody to have them with.
However, here are same obligations around the child, so this means only people who were into children and family are going to be interested anyways.
Bad thing is, in my opinion, the fact that "single mother via AI" is probably too old to have any more children, or she generally falls under same conditions like other "old women" with that regard. She's probably single not because she couldn't find a match but because she lost any hope of finding one before she runs out of time with her "biological clock". This means that only "merging families" is an option, NOT seeking someone who plans to have children, especially not someone who's childless. We aren't talking about a 22 y/o woman who does AI, let's get real.
Just speaking for experience as I have a wonderful father who has played a massive role in my upbringing. I would say at least 50/50. And I have a son who's father is absent and it's not something I would have choosen as I know how significant a fathers role is.
If I recall, you're a fairly young women, mid late 20's... anyways it's nice to hear someone in your age group acknowledge the importance of fathers.
I think if a woman has a baby thru AI.... it just comes off as selfish to me.. I know that sounds "judgy" I just look at the world with all of the kids that need to be adopted and she's bring in a child that right off of the bat might have less of a chance just because it's a less than ideal situation. I'm just talking generalities here so I don't women to get pissed off..
DOODES! If you keep coming up with these bizarre, bogus excuses for crossing women off your list, you're going to miss out on some serious bliss! No biggie, more for Zorba!
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Why does it matter how she got pregnant?
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