Reply #17: Deliberately making the choice to have a child alone is a selfish decision [View All]

[Demit]

We are talking about women who go ahead with this decision despite there being no Daddy in the picture. Situations with a Daddy are irrelevant to the topic we are discussing.

You yourself are focused on what the decision means to the woman. Only the woman. Where's your concern for the child?

Wanting parenthood isn't selfish, per se. I'd be much more sympathetic to a single woman who moves to adopt a child already in the world. But women who reject that course because they either want to claim the experience of pregnancy, or want to see themselves in their child, are not thinking of the child. They are indulging themselves. It's a sad and selfish act.