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Infertile people are also viewed as sad people who may bring sadness with them and "spoil" celebrations. [5] As one scholar put it, "Like leprosy and epilepsy, infertility bears an ancient social stigma. [7] An archaic term for the condition of female infertility, present in the Old Testament, is barren woman. [10]
In some cultures, including Botswana [70] and Nigeria, [63] women can select a woman with whom she allows her husband to sleep with in hopes of conceiving a child. [63] Women who are desperate for children may compromise with her husband to select a woman and accept duties of taking care of the children to feel accepted and useful in society.
It is also a normal state in women after menopause. In humans, infertility is the inability to become pregnant after at least one year of unprotected and regular sexual intercourse involving a male and female partner. [2] There are many causes of infertility, including some that medical intervention can treat. [3]
A growing number of women in the US are deciding not to have children — part of a trend that has been underway for more than a decade. But many say they still face judgment for their child-free ...
It’s not surprising, therefore, that many young women in the U.S. have started to adopt and spread the message of a South Korean feminist framework called the 4B movement.
WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or ...
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
Some people simply do not feel the "biological clock" ticking [30] and have no parental drives. [31] [32] On the other hand, some meet the right partners at too advanced an age to safely bear children. [13] [32] Among some women, there is a fear or revulsion towards the physical condition of pregnancy , [33] and the childbirth experience. [34]