Longing for the happiness of a baby: a woman takes a stroller for a walk. (icon picture)
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Carolina wants a child, but she doesn’t have the right partner. Because her biological clock is ticking, she decides on an unusual path: she tries it without a father – and with a sperm bank.
Dhe possibility of becoming a single mother first opened up for me when I heard about Claudia Spiegele from the media about seven years ago. She has five children from the same sperm donor in Denmark. Her story triggered me. Actually, none of this fit into my concept of a “father-mother-child family”, which was clearly what I wanted because I knew it from my environment. But over time, the topic became more and more utopian, because I just didn’t do anything in this direction.
I was 42, my friends all had families. In the meantime I had another partner who didn’t really want to position himself and once, when we were talking about children again, said to my face: “If you really want it, why didn’t you take care of it when what was the best time for it?” That was a real smack and really nagged at me. Then the thought popped up: “Well, maybe you’ll just do it alone.”
