<P> In the show 's 1991 -- 92 season , Murphy became pregnant . When her baby 's father ( ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein ) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent , Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone . Another major fiction - reality blending came at Murphy 's baby shower : the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric , Joan Lunden , Paula Zahn , Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels , who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers . </P>
<P> In the show 's 1991 -- 92 season , Murphy became pregnant . When her baby 's father ( ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein ) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent , Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone . Another major fiction - reality blending came at Murphy 's baby shower : the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric , Joan Lunden , Paula Zahn , Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels , who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers . </P>
who is avery 's biological father on murphy brown
who is avery 's biological father on murphy brown
ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein
ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein