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Male Mothers

"My Daughters Have No Mother" is an article i read today. Max Mutchnick, the author, discusses how gay men need surrogates in order to have children. He then proceeds with saying heterosexuals have it easier than homosexuals because they don't necessarily need surrogates to carry their unborn children (Mutchnick). I will agree with him on the fact that heterosexual couples have a much easier way to produce and carry a child because a heterosexual couple consists of a woman and a man. The man is able to impregnate the woman by delivering his sperm to her egg producing a zygote. For a homosexual couple pregnancy becomes impossible, at least between the two. Pregnancy is impossible for the female couples because they both have eggs, but no sperm to fertilize them and produce the zygote; while the males both have sperm, but no eggs to fertilize. This is why homosexual couples turn to surrogates. The surrogates can sometimes use the egg or sperm of the female or male to inseminate themselves and produce a zygote, which will later develop into a fetus. Max Mutchnick seems quite frustrated that his daughters will never really have a mom since he is with another man, but he realizes that he will love the child regardless of whether or not a surrogate carried it. This is an important way for him to look at things. It means he has a good attitude about things that he can't necessarily control. If more people were like Max, the world would consist of happier and more grateful people.


References:
Mutchnick, Max. "My Daughters Have No Mother." TheHuffingtonPost.com. The Huffington Post, 27 Feb. 2009. Web. 09 Apr. 2014.