TY - JOUR T1 - The Warnock Report and single women: what about the children? JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 182 LP - 186 DO - 10.1136/jme.12.4.182 VL - 12 IS - 4 AU - S Golombok AU - J Rust Y1 - 1986/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/12/4/182.abstract N2 - The Warnock Committee decided not to sanction artificial insemination by donor (AID) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for single heterosexual women or for lesbian women on the grounds that it is better for children to be born into a two-parent heterosexual family. From an examination of the effects on children of growing up in fatherless heterosexual and lesbian families, this paper questions that assumption. ER -