http://familyscholars.org/2010/06/20/my-daddys-name-is-donor-sheds-new-light-on-the-single-motherhood-debate/ Engaging the Key Debates Mon, 21 May 2012 01:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://familyscholars.org/2010/06/20/my-daddys-name-is-donor-sheds-new-light-on-the-single-motherhood-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 John Howard Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:06:24 +0000 http://familyscholars.org/?p=1542#comment-2500 Reading that piece, I had the thought that people don't "turn out" until they are pretty much done with their lives. Assessing if people have turned out all right when they are still teenagers seems a little premature. And when we extend the goal posts out to the end of life, then we see that far more people are affected by donor insemination than just the DC children themselves. There are the men who are passed over because DC remains an option, the men's parents who are denied grandchildren, the women who wind up frantic, even if they don't go ahead with that old back-up plan they've had since they were 22. Reading that piece, I had the thought that people don’t “turn out” until they are pretty much done with their lives. Assessing if people have turned out all right when they are still teenagers seems a little premature. And when we extend the goal posts out to the end of life, then we see that far more people are affected by donor insemination than just the DC children themselves. There are the men who are passed over because DC remains an option, the men’s parents who are denied grandchildren, the women who wind up frantic, even if they don’t go ahead with that old back-up plan they’ve had since they were 22.

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