In today’s world of single mother glorification, it’s simpler than ever to undergo artificial insemination as a single mother. It’s easy, says Cosmo!
“Approximately 30 percent of people who come to us looking for donor sperm are single women,” says Michelle Ottey, PhD, director of operations at Fairfax Cryobank. “To start the process, all you have to do is go to our Website and search our sperm-donor profiles.” Kind of like online dating, only for your baby daddy.
See? Becoming a mother is as easy as surfing the Web for a hookup. It’s easy, and you’ll be able to trace your child’s pedigree just like a dog. You’ll see three to four generations worth of of health history, education, occupation, and even astrological signs. And you can even choose a donor who the child will never be allowed to contact. So when your child starts asking who their father is, they’ll never get to know, because some donor identities are never revealed.
Oh, there are negatives. It’s expensive, of course. And there have apparently been scandals — Cosmo notes some women have given birth to a baby that is not the chosen ethnicity and reports that some facilities have caught employees supplementing donor sperm with their own. But have no fear, says Cosmo: as long as the donor bank is licensed, you’ll be just fine. The biggest thing you have to worry about, according to the Fun Fearless Females at Cosmopolitan, is how difficult it can be to find guys.
The Jennifers may have found love fairly easily in their respective movies, but the reality is that meeting men can be pretty tough when you’re breastfeeding or trying to potty-train a toddler.
Not to mention most men might be a little bit weirded out by a single woman who artificially inseminated herself. It might possibly come across as selfish and desperate … probably because it is selfish and desperate. A potential boyfriend might wonder why he’s even needed to begin with, especially when women are constantly being fed the idea that fathers are more and more unnecessary.
WayneB says: The whole problem with this kind of thing stems from the fact that it starts with well-to-do people. A couple of years ago there was an article about a woman, I can’t remember the whole story, but after she had had one or two children for a while, she decided she was going to write a book on how to be a good mother while having a career, too. This woman had a total of FIVE other women who helped take care of her children (and perhaps her house – don’t remember). How can she possibly give other people advice if she can’t do the job herself?
Other women see what these women of means do without seeing all the help they have by virtue of their money, and think they can do the same thing. Then, after they have raised a child with virtually no parental involvement, or else after having gone on Welfare, with its own attendant problems, so they can raise the child themselves, they wonder how they have raised a little monster.
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