No Daddy Required ; at 40, Her Biological Clock Was Ticking. Rather Than Risk Waiting for a Perfect Man, June Went to the Sperm Bank to Have a Child. Every Woman's Right? Or a Sad Commentary On an Age of Selfishness and Confused Morality?

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LIKE all new mothers, June Lake's voice fills with pride when she talks about her six month old daughter, Crystelle.

Motherhood has brought her all the joy she'd dreamed it would, and there is nothing that brings her more delight than spending time with her baby.

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No Daddy Required ; at 40, Her Biological Clock Was Ticking. Rather Than Risk Waiting for a Perfect Man, June Went to the Sperm Bank to Have a Child. Every Woman's Right? Or a Sad Commentary On an Age of Selfishness and Confused Morality?

But as June sits at home cradling her daughter, it becomes clear there is one striking omission from this happy family scene. In short, there is no father - a fact that is the result of a crisis which gathered pace in June's life as she approached her 40th birthday.

With no man on the scene, June feared she had left it too late to have a baby, and was faced with a quandary that is becoming all too familiar for thousands of women who concentrate on career success at the expense of motherhood, only to realise that time is running out.

While most remain optimistic that Mr Right will arrive before it is too late, bringing with him the possibility of a longed-for family, June, a former beauty queen and fashion ...

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