It's amazing how often anecdotal "evidence" is quoted ("I worked in a women's shelter, and we always welcomed male victims...") or rhetorical gymnastics ("The NOW site states different statistics, therefore you are wrong...") are deployed by fact-immune feminist bigots who seem to think equality means ignoring male problems.

The CDC statistics speak volumes, and the fact that they are swept under the rug by many of the posters here speaks volumes about the rabid anti-male ideological position many men and women on this board take with regards to how the law and society treat men and women very differently.

That's part and parcel of the feminist entitlement mentality that dominates feminism in America today.

Thankfully, many young women realize how hateful and divisive this 70s-style feminism really is, and are turning their backs on this hateful ideology and embracing true equality.

That equality, unfortunately, is rarely in evidence in Broadsheet articles or posts.

Why consider at all the questions your child will have later in life? Why consider at all the feelings your child will have about the absent parent, "absent" by your choice?

Having a child should primarily be about the child, not just about the needs of the mother.

This is a social experiment that puts children at risk, and is not a phenomenon to celebrate.

http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/Experiments.pdf

Children in single mother families fare more poorly than those in married families irrespective of income (see http://www.src.uchicago.edu/prc/pdfs/kalil02.pdf).

I'd feel fine if she was enthusiastic and prepared to adopt a dog or a rabbit, but this is another human being with feelings, concerns and an individual identity. Heredity, family ties, lineage, history; these all matter in one's life. Ms. Sloan is denying her son that part of his identity through her selfish act.

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501820.html

"...The children born of these transactions are people, too. Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say.

I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place."

Ellen Degeneres faces more regulation when adopting a dog than Ms. Sloan does regarding bringing a child into the world.