BBC NEWS | Health | IVF 'need for father' rule may go

BBC NEWS | Health | IVF 'need for father' rule may go

Who's the Daddy! Well, erm, no-one apparently.

While I don't want the role of fathers to be undervalued or undermined, I can see why this is a move to a more even-handed attitude to fertility treatment. It would be lovely (if a little regimented) if every child could be brought up in a conventional and loving nuclear family. But the nuclear family brings no absolute guarantee of love or happiness, so perhaps a better criteria is simply whether or not the child will be born into a loving family, regardless of how big or small that family might be.