Reckless Girls

Although some children were forced to lose both parents, a far larger number came from sexually liberated men and women who knocked someone up and walked away, or maliciously abandoned their children, caring only about their own pleasure.

Moreover, quite a few states in the United States did not allow abortion, and every state had sperm banks offering artificial insemination to single women. The whole "keep the child, ditch the father" game had long since been played to death there; men did not even need to participate directly.

All this meant that a considerable number of children grew up without a father involved in their lives from the very beginning.

So what was wrong with these children wanting to find their biological fathers? Even if their mothers took good care of them and they lacked neither food nor clothing, would they not be curious about who their fathers were? Skye herself was an orphan. Even with Henry as her guardian and old lady Catherine Hepburn taking care of her, she had never given up searching for her biological parents. Henry had never stopped her from tracing her roots either; he simply did not help.

It could be said that one of the reasons the girl learned hacking was to find clues about her parents in government systems.

It was just that the clues to her biological parents had been hidden by an organization better at keeping secrets. So the girl could only keep searching, keep getting disappointed. Henry had seen all of it.

It was not that he did not want to reveal the answer. He had merely planned to tell her after she came of age, letting Skye decide for herself what she wanted to do. Even regarding the other Skye's soul being turned into a coin by a