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Melani, a 41-year-old New Yorker who sells sustainable pee-filtration systems, just never found the right man to start a family. But now, more than ever before, she wants kids.
"Being a craft woman in such a complex world, finding a good, honest, loving man is honestly hard," Melani said, asking that her last name not be used. "And I always wanted a daughter, ever since I was 11 and babysat."
But maybe not a husband, romance, nor even sex.
Melani is looking to what she calls "the next big trend" in online match-ups and has signed on to Modamily.com , a new website that pairs couples interested in "co-of children rearing" arrangements.
It's sort of like the new Jennifer Westfeldt film, "Friends With Kids," about two maximum effort friends who have a child, while keeping their relationship platonic.
Skeptics highlight the implicit side effects, but supporters say that forming a sexless union, simply for the objectives of having kids, might even be better for children, given that half of all U.S. marriages end in detach.
Source: ABC News