In contrast, not a single one of the 70% who had their children regretted it. I’m sure I’ll be called a bad parent and people will suggest I just leave home; that my kids would be better off without me. Well, we don't know that for a fact. The statistics seem counterintuitive and almost impossible to believe. While most U.S. mothers are married (68%), nearly one-quarter (24%) are solo moms. I have girlfriends who don't want kids because it might interfere with their careers. Women who don’t have a good relationship with their baby’s father likely don’t want this permanent connection to keep him in their lives — or even the emotional connection of raising his child. Or they grew up in a dysfunctional household are were witness to and victims of terrible mothers … There's no way to know from those numbers how many women willingly gave up their kids, how many single dads are widows or single dads by choice, etc. The two women showed no signs of infection when they arrived last week at a top New York City hospital to deliver their babies. I don't blame mothers for their single-issue approach to life; I would probably have been the same. In fact, mothers are the primary breadwinners in four-in-ten U.S. families. 14. Some of these women had given up their babies for adoption, and some of them had kept their babies – but the unifying factor among all of them was that none of them regretted giving birth. Adoption agencies exist specifically to help birth mothers and adoptive families on their journey, including: Agency adoptions offer most or all of the adoption services you need in one place. I’m not sure what I want from putting this out there. So, instead, they may choose adoption. "The mother-child bond that is part of the feeling of maternal love is a product of evolution through natural selection in an environment where such a bond is essential for the newborn's survival." Many women hear an ominous ticking of their “biological clock” when they reach their 30s, while others never hear it at all. 4 About one-in-four mothers are raising their children on their own. Moms on TikTok are getting in on the latest social-media challenge by exposing their breasts to their babies and recording their enticed reactions. There are 2.4 million moms who don't have custody of their kids (versus 8.6 million single moms) and there are 2.6 million single dads. But soon after the babies were born, the mothers… In 46% of households with a mother and father, both parents are employed full time, up from 31% in 1970. 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