Unwinding the biological clock

If personal choice and self determination are the measures, women in America and the western world in general have a far better life than women living in other parts of the world today. The women's suffrage movement that began in the early 20th century and bloomed in the 60's has had many ramifications, most of them positive.
Today there is an article at MSNBC entitled: With no Mr. Right in sight, time for plan B
More women are silencing their biological clocks via sperm donation.

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it begins:

When Anne-Marie,* the president and CEO of a start-up medical device company in Philadelphia, first begajavascript:void(0)
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As much as she wanted to be in a great, loving relationship with a partner, she wanted a baby even more. “If I turned 50 and didn't have children," she says, "I'd be pretty devastated."

Here we have an obviously intelligent, business savvy woman who chose to start her own company. The consequence of this is that she hasn't had time to think about a family until now. The obvious solution?

So after about a year of weighing her options and considering what it would be like to be a mother on her own, she did something a growing number of single women are doing: She chose an anonymous donor through a sperm bank and started her attempts to get pregnant, using drugs to encourage the growth of egg-producing follicles.

This is supremely selfish.

“I think a lot of the reason there are more single women becoming pregnant on their own is because of careers,” says Anne-Marie. “I went to a big-name undergrad school and a big-name grad school, I traveled a lot, I worked overseas. It’s hard to meet somebody, if you didn’t want to date someone from work. All of a sudden you’re 37, 38 and you think ‘I should have prioritized this more.’ But you’re just doing what you enjoy.”

Every choice has a consequence.
OK I'll come out with where I"m going with all of this...
Women have made tremendous strides towards equality with men in the past 100 years. This is good for men, women and society as a whole. However, when a woman decides that she's missed the marriage boat, or she thinks it's too much trouble to find a proper mate and nurture a relationship that will result in children, she now has the option of becoming a single mother by choice. Society, rightly or wrongly, has decided that being a single parent is not so bad afterall (it is most certainly preferable to a child growing up in a dysfunctional, abusive two parent home). I do not know how this translates into a single mother being both a good mother AND a good father. A child needs both to be a well adjusted kid, adolesent and adult. I think it is the pinnacle of selfishness to bring a child into the world simply because a woman feels she needs to be a mother before it's too late. It transfers her neurosis on to an innocent being. I'll speculate and say that a woman who cannot choose the proper mate or maintain and nuture a healthy relationship probably would not make the best parent in the first place. There's something Darwinian there. How is a child to understand that he/she is a product of a spermbank? What sort of psychological consequences does this have?
There is such a thing as too many choices, I believe this falls into that category. I'll say it again--a child needs a mother AND a father. If that were not the case, nature would have created us as asexual beings.