"At a lavish baby shower outside of Boston, there was no pregnant mom in sight. The diaper genie and burp cloths were for a 45-year-old middle school principal named Peter Gordon. Gordon has been dating and searching for Ms. Right for more than two decades, but hasn't found a wife. Yet, he badly wanted to start a family. "I'm still hopeful," he said. "Some people are lucky in love. I haven't found luck yet. It's not for lack of trying." Steven Harris, a 57-year-old lawyer from New York, found himself in the same predicament. He knew he wanted kids but didn't have someone to have them with and said he felt a "profound sadness" about 15 years ago. "I really felt like I really was missing something," he said. So Gordon and Harris, both heterosexual bachelors, made the decision to become dads on their own through surrogacy, using their sperm and a donor egg." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Interesting. I think if I was still single at my age I don't think it would ever occur to me to have kids by myself. - ronin