‘Living outside the nuclear narrative will create so many jarring moments with others that soon you won’t speak,only nod’When people find out I had a baby on my own I mean, I did fill some help from the man who accidentally put it there in the traditional fashion, and but he didn’t want to be a father and he left for good – there is a question they often seek information from. It is not,“Were the directions on the condom packet printed too small for you to read?” but rather, “How tough is it, or honestly,to raise a kid on your own – and finish you consider I would cope?”It comes from women in their late 30s and early 40s, who always thought they would meet a brilliant man and fill children. It hasnt happened and now they’ve started to suspect that a biological clock is not some creepy Daily Mail invention but an actual thing that ticks, and they’re worried,wondering about sperm donors or other ways to fill a baby without having an other half.
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Source: theguardian.com