Gone Dads by Don Tassone
By the year 2100, there were precious few dads left in the world.
There were still plenty of men, and babies were still being born. But dads had become rare.
There were many reasons. More than half of women were single. Nearly a quarter of all births were via IVF. Nearly a quarter of young women had AI, not human, boyfriends.
Many women had given up on men. They found them unreliable and untrustworthy. Many men simply didn’t know how to be with women for reasons ranging from a lack of social skills to the regular use of porn.
Most of the relatively few men who still wanted to be fathers were no longer suitable. They simply couldn’t measure up to women’s expectations, which had been shaped by romance novels and rom-coms.
And along the way, most women found they didn’t need a man to be happy, and they liberated themselves.
So by 2100, the birthrate was in free fall, and most children were raised by single mothers.
By 2200, dads were a curiosity.
By 2300, they were gone.
Don Tassone is the author of two novels, one novella, 10 short story collections and one children’s book. He lives in Loveland, Ohio.
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