A Motherless Child....

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
    Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
       Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 
A long ways from home
    A long ways from home
       True believer
A long ways from home
    Along ways from home..

We already live in a time when fatherless children are the norm in many places.  We have often lamented that children have become the unwitting victims in so many of the ills of our society.   An article addresses some of this:

When surrogacy and egg donation first gained national attention in the 1980s the children in question usually had a social mother, a woman, herself infertile, married to a man and seeking to achieve pregnancy with the use of another woman's body. Today we are witnessing an equal opportunity run on deliberately conceiving motherless children. Men, alone or in pairs, can buy eggs and rent wombs, too. A child can be denied knowledge of and a relationship with his or her generally fit mother simply because other adults -- the child's prospective legal parents -- wish it to be so, and are willing to pay to make it so. These transactions occur with the aid of doctors, lawyers, and clinics licensed by the state, and thus with tacit approval from the state.

You can read it all in the Atlantic here....

We now find ourselves with children whose father's names and mother's names are "donor" and these circumstances are not supposed to matter to them as they grow up in the gay, lesbian, or single parent homes.... but, guess what -- it does matter...

For decades we have debated whether fathers matter. Must we now debate whether mothers matter, too?

The whole idea that we have to debate this is just plain sad...  Again, the children are the unwitting victims of our own failures and selfishness.