Dead Man Wanking Making babies from the sperm of dead soldiers.

Employee benefits are shifting as marriage and parenthood decline. Data: 1) 42 percent of U.S. adults are now unmarried. 2) In 35 years, the proportion of unmarried women who marry each year has declined by half. 4) In 40 years, the proportion of households that have kids under 18 has declined from almost half to less than a third, and soon it'll fall to a fourth. Single/childless complaints: 1) Parents get more freedom to leave work than we do. 2) The work they leave undone gets dumped on us. 3) They get paid better. 4) Company benefits are designed for them, not us. Result: As the balance of power shifts away from parents and married couples, companies are rethinking the distribution of hours, salaries, and benefits. (Related: Most American women no longer live with a husband, and married couples are no longer a majority of U.S. households.) Single perspective: We want "equal respect for nonwork life." Parents' perspective: Our nonwork life is more important than yours. Human Nature's view: Now that I'm a parent, I see that the parents are right. Several U.S. military widows have produced children using their dead husbands' sperm. These are not pregnancies that were underway when the husband died; they're pregnancies that didn't exist. A leading sperm bank has offered discounts to servicemen going to Iraq; many have banked sperm in case they're exposed to chemicals that damage their fertility. Arguments for using the sperm: 1) It's part of the life my husband and I could have had. 2) "When he died, I was 40 and it's not like I had time to look for another person." 3) The sperm bank offered servicemen the discount explicitly "to help ensure the future of their families." 4) The child can be "something good that came out of the war." Objections: 1) Maybe "the guy hadn't planned to die, so he didn't say you could use his sperm." 2) Even if he did, the widow might regret bearing his child when she later "meets someone else." Related: 1) The first court-approved production of a baby between a corpse and a stranger. 2) Human Nature's take on making and selling embryos from strangers. SOURCE OF THIS STORY