Friday, December 23, 2005

Daddy, Where Are You? --- More Pointedly, Daddy, WHO Are You?

* Another "field report" on how the sexual revolution is further unraveling the social fabric -- this one from the Catholic Educator's Resource Center commenting on the all time high of the number of fatherless children in the United States: 1,500,000 in 2004 alone!

...While the rising trend is of long standing, one novel factor driving up childbearing outside marriage is the growing popularity of single motherhood by donor insemination. The incidence of this "assisted reproduction," as it is called, has more than doubled in the last decade...