Births to Single Mothers Are Down, Except for Those 35 and Older
Lizzie Skurnick, 41, a publisher of young adult fiction and a writer, wanted to become a mother, but didn’t want a partner at the time. She used donor sperm to conceive her son Javier, 1, and is considering having another baby in the same way. “If I had married any of the men I had dated, and they are lovely men, I would be carrying them also, because they always made less than I did,” she said. “Honestly, that’s just an additional stress on a household.”
.. But the benefits, they said, far outweighed the challenges. They avoided spousal arguments over child rearing, which they had seen tear apart friends’ marriages. They had autonomy in making parenting decisions.