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by rowanseymour 26 days ago
I know plenty of women who have delayed starting a family and they were well aware of the increased risks.. as they struggled to meet the right person, establish themselves professionally etc. They were certainly not brainwashed.
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I know someone who knew such a women that benefited from this suggestion, so for what it's worth: women who feel strongly about having kids but are struggling to find a suitable partner should consider instead finding a suitable sperm donor through the appropriate legal channels, and raising the kid alone.
That can work but there are some risks:

1. It greatly lowers the genetic diversity in the population, and this is dooming. This can be consequential because some such donors can have serious cancer causing genes that trigger at an early age, that are not apparent from the profile, as has happened.

2. You never know if a staffer will use his sperm instead or will simply make an error in which sperm gets used. It happens often enough. The woman is then left with the worst of all choices.