Daddies be damned! Who are the British women who think fathers are irrelevant?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

From the Daily Mail (UK):

Having reached the age of 38 without meeting Mr Right, Karen Shefras decided to become a mother by using donated sperm.

As a result, Karen, who runs her own company, has never met her ten-month-old daughter’s father. The closest she came to him was at the clinic where five of her eggs were injected with sperm donated by the dark-haired and intelligent businessman.

‘Ideally, it would have been nice to have met a man and had a baby the conventional way,’ says Karen, now 41. ‘I always pictured myself getting married – but it just didn’t happen…

The Human Fertility & Embryology Act 2008 means that doctors no longer need to take into account the ‘need for a father’.

Instead, a woman requesting sperm must only demonstrate that any child will receive ’supportive parenting’.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1224225/Daddies-damned-Who-British-women-think-fathers-irrelevant.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0VfTSN9Mg

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