@ Miss Mimi: Its good to explore new options, take new routes, do new things, change life styles but to what extent ...really??? Personally i am not against women being non-orthodox at times. I know so many women who are so successful and are yet different from traditional life styles.
But when it comes to parenting... the whole concept of being a parent pivots around a pair of living beings. A natural pair. Its the rule of the nature. One contributes towards the birth and other strives for the survival of the family. Look around... that is how nature works. I guess we as human beings can do unbelievable things such as genetic engineering, cloning, etc and simply try to be in control of the nature itself.. but the question is to which extent?
We have in the past tried to be super beings, but we simply cant go against the Laws of the nature.. Its a disaster in many cases!!!Parenting has to be the way it was planned by nature. We can try but it cannot be implemented in general.