Love in a Straw

Family patterns are changing. In Denmark sperm donation can still be anonymous and the number of women from around the world travelling to the country to conceive by artificial insemination has soared. More and more single women now go on the internet to buy semen and get inseminated by a midwife in a clinic. But what motivates single women to make this choice − to become pregnant without a father to the child? Signe and Maria do not know each other but they are in the same situation. As young girls they played with their dolls and dreamt about finding true love, a man, having children, building a family. About living happily ever after. But after years of searching and numerous failed relationships their biological clock are ticking − really fast. Close to 40, disillusioned about how life has turned out and the lack of possibility to get pregnant the ‘normal’ way, they are desperate. But it is not easy to turn your back on a long life dream about a man and the traditional family and to take matter into your own hand getting pregnant alone. But if they do not, they may never become mothers.