Rise In Women Taking On Motherhood Alone
IVF and donor insemination are increasingly being seen as an option for single women who want to start a family by themselves.

Leinie and Bebe have the same father, but he is not part of their lives. That might not be so unusual, but what is is the way Mom Lisa Lee. got pregnant.

With no husband or partner or time ticking, she opted for the donor insemination as the root of motherhood.
I don't think anyone got about it deliberately because they don't want a man around, and a lot of women are hoping that nice men will turn up now the children are there. But the pressure is, you know, of trying to find the men in the time you have got, and it was becoming a mom.
A growing number of women are choosing a similar path. In 2007, 259 single women had IVF treatment. By 2012, the number had more than doubled to 632. And donor insemination for women without a partner also increased from 350 to 468 over the same period.
It became easier for single women to pursue motherhood with the introduction of the 2008 human fertilization and embryology. What that did was remove the reference to the need for a father when going for fertility treatments instead of replacing it with the requirement provides supportive parenting.
And before it gets to the stage of laboratories, plenty of checks should be carried out.
It's not taken very likely by the women or by the clinic, and there are very responsible rules. We make sure that there is support from family and friends and most of the time, there is. And we also offer them counsel link before they have treatment.
There are nearly 2 million single parents in the UK, and the vast majority have been through a separation. But critics say that's different, the opting to go it alone from the outset.
I am quite horrified. I think it very offensive and undesirable to reduce the role of a fatherhood to a donation from an anonymous sperm donor. There is much more to fatherhood than that.
It's an idea that we will never sit comfortably for those who disagree, but having a baby is a woman's right, but for Lisa and others like her, only by becoming a mother could life be made complete.