(ETH) – A new trend is sweeping America where single people are connecting online, not to start a relationship, but to immediately have a child. That’s right. They are skipping dating, marriage, and even romance, and going straight to parenthood according to a new report from Fox News. According to this report, the new style of creating a family is known as “co-parenting”.

The New York Post elaborates further by staying several websites that have popped up recently are helping people who have no interest in a romantic relationship but are only looking for children as soon as possible. Some people interested in co-parenting are reportedly already in relationships but with someone who doesn’t want to have children while others are simply singles who aren’t interested in waiting to start a family by getting married and etc.

A woman named Yelena Pronoza told the New York Post that she became interested in co-parenting after splitting from her husband four years ago. While she has an 18-year-old daughter, she wanted another kid, and he didn’t. After the relationship ended, she says she started looking for help on the internet. “I was thinking, ‘How long will it take me to create a new relationship that will bring a child?’ It could take a year, or it could take 10 years,” she told the Post. “That’s when I discovered co-parenting.” READ MORE


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