Lesbians choosing to have children
1980
“There were very few
lesbians who became pregnant through donor insemination) in the 70s and
80s but later on it became quite a feature, I know quite a few that’s
had kids. A friend has a story of cycling around with a test tube in
her armpit. It doesn’t matter whether it’s lesbian or heterosexual
mothers, I can’t be doing with some of the sense that they have a hard
time. Several women I work with say that the big divide is not women
and men any more, it's men and women who have kids, and men and women
who haven’t, and that may well be true, because those women can’t work
the same patterns as we can. I think ’You decided to get normal, go and
get on with it’ – not very sympathetic!”
Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51