Marion – I wouldn’t want to do a sperm bank either. However, for women who want children who have been unsuccessful in finding a man who they love who also want children, they have options.
I know a woman attorney who just adopted a little girl. Abadoned by father, mother a drug addict. That little girl has a new lease on life. How do you tell a child he/she came from a sperm bank. The more popular this becomes, it will have less of a stigma. Just as adopted children. Do not have the child think they were abandoned and had f/up conceivers. “You are adopted. I went out of my way to have you in my life to raise you and give you my love.”
Not what has also sadly happened and not said, “You were an accident and your mother and I are begrudgingly raising you out of obligation.”
Ideally, of course, always the perfect scenario is to have a couple in love, marry and having a family. That traditional concept is the route I’d want to go. But we are in a less than perfect world. I do not believe women should suffer not having children if that’s what they want, nor men should suffer the fate of having kids they don’t want.
Off to enjoy the day. Boy, this thread went off on a tangent. I think Dave contributed to that.
