Knock Yourself Up

Is the title of a book which says, "no man - no problem" and is marketed as a "Tell All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom". Not a how to be a single mom book, but a how to become a single mom.

For those women whose biological clock is tick tick ticking, this book tells all about artificial insemination, picking your sperm donor and ordering your sperm on line and getting it in the mail and all the Emily Post etiquette rules like "How to tell your date" and "How to tell your parents" about your pregnancy.

Some of us aren't so happy that pregnancy, parenting and motherhood is happening without the need for men and fathers and husbands.

There is quite a bit of controversy on this topic in the U.K. as children's birth certificates are being changed to indicate "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" versus "mother" and "father". One telling UK statistic is this:

"The number of women in England and Wales not registering the father's name on the birth certificate has risen from 28,000 in 1988 to nearly 50,000 in 2006. Last year, one in seven left the box under 'Father' blank."