I've never seen kids behave so well. Patrick Fagan, a Fellow in Family and Culture at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., believes these children are more cursed than blessed. Fagan worries that the rise of single parenthood is eroding the traditional family in this country. Bock responds to Fagan's dour prognosis by examining our concept of family. Bock goes on to state that the feminist agenda has allowed women to consider a lifestyle choice that 30 or 40 years ago would have been unthinkable.
Celebrities are doing it, more is known about sperm banks.
To answer that question, Pregnancy Today spoke with four women who either are currently single and pregnant or have had a child essentially without a partner's support. At this time, the baby's father is not providing emotional or financial support. Of all the women interviewed for this article, Adrienne appears to have the toughest road ahead of her. No doubt in part because of her economic situation, her family has urged her to give the baby up for adoption. My family is on the west coast and I only have a handful of friends here in Boston.