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Article: REVIEW: Becoming a father out of wedlock When a friend announced she was having his baby, Simon Andrews began to plan for single parenthood
- Article from:
- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 17, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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TO A SINGLE man
in his mid-twenties, whose long-term plans extend no further than
which parties to attend next week, the three most frightening words
in the English language are "I am pregnant". This summer, after
returning from two weeks in France, I found myself on the receiving
end of this simple, yet life-changing sentence. For the next month
I was dream-walking, unable to believe that this had happened to me.
By next spring I will be a parent. My child will have a father, a
mother, two full sets of grandparents and the assortment of other
relations that make up the traditional family - except this will be
no "normal" family, because the father (me), and the mother
(Juliet), will not be ...
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