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No Men, But Babies?

楊慈郁. (November, 21,2010). 不擔心單親 有子萬事足 http://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E4%B8%8D%E6%93%94%E5%BF%83%E5%96%AE%E8%A6%AA-%E6%9C%89%E5%AD%90%E8%90%AC%E4%BA%8B%E8%B6%B3.html Yahoo! News. (Original from Chinatimes.com)

        In the previous world, people have the concept that women need to rely on the ability of men to survive. The duty of women is to take care of the family, that is to say, their social character is become a wife and mother. However, nowadays there is a group of women who are over thirty years old, independent, and not willing to get married yet, they may not want to have a husband, but they have the desire to have a baby.

        According to a survey last year, people are discussing that “Do unmarried women have the right to have babies via artificial insemination?” There are 2322 participants being asked this question, 46.1% of them think that these women also have the right to be the mother, 37.3% of them think that there will have problems if children have no father.

        The most important reason why unmarried old lady want to have babies is because after thirty years old, the condition of women’s fertility will become worse than before, and it will be difficult for them to have babies when they are getting older. Even though they are pregnant, they may have more risk than other young expectant mothers through the process of pregnancy. They want to have their own children calling them mother, but they don’t want the constraint of marriage. Therefore, they want to be pregnant by means of artificial insemination by donor.

        People on disapproval side think it is not fair to the children. In the conventional concept most of people may think general family contains a father, mother and their children. But if an unmarried woman wants to have the baby via artificial insemination by donor, there may be no father in this family. The children will have the love from mother, but will lack of the love from father. Arguing on this point, the supporter claims that even in a family with father, if the father abuse the child, the situation will not better than only have a mother. Also, to stay single is not an unchangeable condition, maybe the women will finally find her ideal mate in the future.

        Recently, the fertility rate keeps going down, some reports claim that it is related to women who get married late or don’t want to get married. And it is also a reason why people used to think that unmarried women are the loser, because people have the idea that women’s duty is become a wife and a mother. But we know that things are change, women also have the ability to work and not necessarily need to rely on the care of men.

        As a result, if an unmarried woman has the ability to take care of her children by herself, and she wants to be the mother, giving her love to her baby, it is a good way to fulfill her life as a woman. Moreover, it also can enhance the fertility rate at the same time.