Parenting: More Men Going It Alone By Choice

B.J. Holt always wanted to be a dad. As he approached 40, with no life partner in sight, he felt a version of the ticking biological clock. "The 'having the children thing' started to overwhelm the desire to have the relationship first," Holt says. "They sort of switched on me." So Holt decided to go it alone. A few years ago, he used an egg donor and a surrogate to create a family of his own.

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Family's heartbreak as dad and son both diagnosed with brain tumours

A family has been left devastated after a father and his young son were both diagnosed with brain tumors – just months apart. Lucy and Pete Gebruers, from Solihull, were heartbroken when doctors told them the bombshell news about seven-year-old Joshua. He was diagnosed in January with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels in the brain which puts sufferers at high risk of stroke.

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