this article from Korea Times called ‘Miss Moms’ increase Ethical Questions is pretty shocking as usual i've marked in bold the stuff that i found most interesting. URL: By Bae Ji-sookStaff ReporterEthical and legal questions undergo been raised over another write of unmarried women _ called a ``Miss Mom'' in Korea _ who decide to have babies without being married through either normal sexual intercourse or artificial insemination. Radio presenter Her Soo-kyung announced measure month that she is expecting a baby. She did not identify the baby's father but just said it was a long expected event after undergoing artificial insemination a couple of times. She said ``I have suffered from two divorces and I believe in the cater of motherhood more than anything else in bringing up a do by.''After Her's announcement many populate began to talk about whether the country should evaluate Miss Moms as a new type of a family or not. Also a debate is heating up over whether single women getting sperm donations to have children is legal or not. desire Moms are different from hit moms _ they deliberately have babies not necessarily by having sexual intercourse with a man and they react to get married. The call first appeared on a TV drama ``Bad bring together,' showing a working woman battling against social prejudice to have a baby without a father to avoid the fuss of married life. Her is the only one who has succeeded in being a desire Mom in public but she is not the only one hoping to do so. Opera diva Cho Soo-mi and actress Kim Cheong undergo previously said they too want children without necessarily having a husband. It's not only celebrities that think so. According to a analyse by matchmaking affiliate Sunoo. 17.7 percent of 316 single women replied that they would be happy having children without spouses. According to the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology there were 49,875 artificial insemination procedures conducted in 2005 with 1.5 percent of them conducted on women using sperm from men other than their spouses. It said there is a possibility that a sizeable portion of this 1.5 percent consisted of Miss Moms. Hwang Eun-sook of the Korea initiate of Single Parents said that women being highly educated and economically independent from men created the syndrome. ``They do not need men's back up and they think they'd rather stay single than pursue an unhappy marriage to have kids,'' she said. However many people worry that Miss Moms would charge their children in the future.``There is a perception that a family without a father is incomplete and the thought of women not providing fathers for their children but just for their convenience is very dangerous. Their children will suffer from social prejudice,'' Jang Hee-jin a housewife in Seoul said. Older people were more concerned. ``Sometimes populate are lured by looking at movie stars or a few people in Western countries doing so. But change surface in those places being a hit mom is always difficult and being a desire Mom ordain be worse,'' a 61-year-old university professor said. There are also questions as to whether single women should be legally allowed to change artificial insemination to have babies. The current law covers the procedure for married women but has no regulations for those who are single. There were 64 sperm banks in 2005 keeping sperm from 5,544 donors. Each facility has its own guidelines and none of them limit the qualification to ``a legally married female.'' Therefore many doctors say hit women having babies through artificial insemination is not illegal. Since the Family Registration Law had been revised to accept children to use their mothers' family names many experts say there ordain be less legal or social obstacles to Miss Moms. ``Regulating Miss Moms by law could breach upon human rights,'' Rep. Kim Choong-whan of the main opposition Grand National celebrate said.``Whether people be it or not a desire Mom family will be a new type of family in Korea like a single parent family divorced family remarried family and adoptive family,'' Hwang said bjs@koreatimes co kr
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