Is it wrong if a rich, single woman gets pregnant from a 1-night stand?

Question

What harm would it do if she's a loving, caring mother who can provide the baby with all his/her needs & nurture him/her?

I wouldn't do it, but a friend of mine & I were having this discussion & she sleeps around a lot.

& my friend can't have kids, but she wants one & she's trying hard to get pregnant. I think she'll be a good mother. 1-night stands don't have to be with strangers.

Answer 1

I am not sure of this.

I would not think it would be wrong if any single woman had a baby and raised the child herself. However, I don't believe in sleeping around though I mean no offense to your friend. I think sleeping around demeans both parties. If your friend wants to try to get pregnant, could she try artificial insemination or in utro fertilization? She sounds as if she may be a good candidate to adopt a child.

I wish your friend the best of luck in getting what she wants. I am sure you are right and she would make a great mother.

Answer 2

I think its wrong for any type of woman to get pregnant on a one night stand whether if she rich or poor. She knows nothing about the man she was with and didn't have any love for him and the same with the man. Children should not be made from one night stands they should be made out of love. Hopefully the man who she had the baby by stay in the child life so her kid does not have to ask who their father is. When the baby grows up and say Mom how long were you and dad together before i was born or what made you and dad together or how did you and dad meet? When her child starts to ask her all those things what she going to say i only knew your dad for one day and i accidentally got pregnant, that will be really hard for child to handle at any age. So no, no woman should have a baby from a one night stand, its just wrong more than one way. Also what if the man has a STD, would really want to bring a baby in to the world born with an STD. Thats just sad.

Answer 3

Yes it would be very, very wrong. She's thinking only of herself. She cheapens herself with the one night stand thing and risks STD's and worse. She will have no father or family life to offer the baby she's bringing into the world and will be explaining over and over to that child why it is she/he does not have a daddy like the other kids do for years to come. She'll be explaining it and hoping to teach her child to act better and be wiser than she was, which will not happen. 99% of children from single Mom's repeat the early pregnancy pattern in their own lives.

Don't you want better than that for your child?

I also cannot tell you how very, very, very difficult raising a child is. As much as I wanted to be a mother more than anything else in this world, it was the most difficult reality check I've ever taken on. My husband made it all so much more bearable when she had colic, cried all night, was up vomiting and sick, got asthma, had to be rushed to the hospital, had the chicken pox, oh you name it. He was a true gift and I was so grateful just for someone else to share the joys and trials of parenthood with me, by my side. Someone that loves that baby as much as you do in the crazy, irrational, fabulous way you do will be it's other parent.

Thank God he was there 24/7 to help me! Not to mention my child adores her daddy and he's teaching her exactly how good other mean should treat her in the future.

At least I had the sense to wait until I could her / a child everything that was most important -- a Dad, a home, a life.

I hope that you love your future child enough to wait until you have those things to offer him or her too.

Answer 4

You mean like she was trying to get pregnant? First off, you can only get pregnant if you're having unprotected sex. You should NEVER have unprotected sex with a stranger. Yeah, she could be pregnant, but also have an STD or aids. If a woman wants to get pregnant and be a single parent, she needs to find a good donor. She needs to know his medical background and there's lot of traits and talents that are carried through the genes.

Answer 5

i don't see anything wrong with it at all. sometimes things happen and in my opinion it is much better to keep and love the child than to just get an abortion because the child won't have a father. a single mother can raise a happy healthy child sometimes better than some couples do. it sounds like this woman loves and wants the baby and that is all that matters.

RSJ is wrong you can get pregnant when you are having protected sex, my son was an unexpected surprise, as were my brother and 2 sisters when my mother got pregnant with them. the only way to not get pregnant is to not have sex.

Answer 6

I think a child needs their mother and father in this day and age.

Answer 7

Raising a child successfully takes two parents. A woman alone cannot provide a child "all his/her needs". No matter how many unwed mothers try to convince us all otherwise.
The facts speak for themselves...

Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, Survey on Child Health

Researchers in Michigan determined that "49 percent of all child abuse cases are committed by single mothers."
Source: Joan Ditson and Sharon Shay, "A Study of Child Abuse in Lansing, Michigan," Child Abuse and Neglect, 8

Children with fathers at home tend to do better in school, are less prone to depression and are more successful in relationships. Children from one-parent families achieve less and get into trouble more than children from two parent families.
Source: One Parent Families and Their Children: The School's Most Significant Minority, conducted by The Consortium for the Study of School Needs of Children from One Parent Families, co sponsored by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, a division of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Arlington, VA

Kids who live with both biological parents at age 14 are significantly more likely to graduate from high school than those kids who live with a single parent, a parent and step-parent, or neither parent.
Source: G.D. Sandefur (et al.), "The Effects of Parental Marital Status...", Social Forces

Seventy-two percent of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers. Sixty percent of America's rapists grew up the same way.
Source: D. Cornell (et al.), Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 5. 1987. And N. Davidson, "Life Without Father," Policy Review. 1990

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)

90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26

Answer 8

you dont have to be married/in a relationship to be a good parent. lots of mothers are not. Good luck to the mother.

Answer 9

that would not be wrong.

women who are a lot less able to care for their children get pregnant from one night stands.

Answer 10

I guess that wouldnt be wrong since shes supporting the child.