I believe that a child is much better off having 1 parent who has really thought it through, wants to have a child and will care for it to the best of it s abilities, than 2 parents in marriage who are just having children because "it is supposed to happen".
If a couple gets married and one of them dies as the childs is being born.. do we say that person will do a worse job raising the child? No, we applaud them for moving on and doing a good job.
For me, deciding to have a child alone is in the same category.
I would actually argue that children of a parent who decides to do this alone are better off because this parent has thought about it a lot more, and it is a consious decision.
(taking accidents and unresponsable parents who just get pregnant out of the equation. Just talking about consious choice here)
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