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

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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