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Originally Posted by drawlins27  But you have children already so its easy for you to have this opinion. I could get married tomorrow if I wanted to. Would it be okay to have a child then?
I don't see the hypocrisy. You're assuming that a single woman who has a child through artificial insemination will never get married thus leaving the child without a father figure. The vast majority of women who choose this method do hope to get married one day but don't want to live a life of regret.
This is a good article about how many single women are now going this route: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8284173/ |
First of all I would never suggest getting married to someone you don't love just to have a child, big mistake!
Also, who's to say the younger mother who had the child with the older man will not remarry? What's the difference? Actually, at 66 years of age there's a good chance the father will be around for 20 years which would cover the child rearing years. I'm heading to Santa Barbara in 2 weeks for my Grandpas 90th Birthday, go Grandpa!
I don't see why me having children already has anything to do with it. If a single woman is ready to have a child and uses adoption or artificial insemination to do so then great, I don't have a problem with that. In addition if a woman chooses to have a child with an older man who may or may not be there for the child rearing years, I don't have a problem with that either. Why is ok for one but not the other? That's what I have a problem with. You're not likely to see a 66 year old woman choosing to have a baby, she probably can't physically and I doubt that an adoption agency would allow her to adopt. So the scenario we're all talking about is an older man/younger woman. Why is it OK for a single woman to have a child but not a married woman with an older husband? Both could potentially leave the child without a father, one could get married, the other could remarry.
That's the hypocracy.