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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. [70]
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]
1970: Nawal El Saadawi criticizes FGM in Al-Mar'a wa Al-Jins (Women and Sex). [A 12] 1972: Saadawi's The Naked Face of Women describes her own circumcision. [A 13] 1975: UN International Women's Year. American social scientist Rose Oldfield Hayes calls it "female genital mutilation" in paper on Sudan. [A 14]
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 ...
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.
More people are choosing to forego having children, for a variety of reasons from the economy to the environment. Here's what experts say about this choice.
A study of a population of French women from 1670 and 1789 shows that those who married at age 20–24 had 7.0 children on average and 3.7% remained childless. Women who married at age 25–29 years had a mean of 5.7 children and 5.0% remained childless. Women who married at 30–34 years had a mean of 4.0 children and 8.2% remained childless. [20]
Some women are fearful for Trump-era abortion policies and taking health into their own hands. Some women are stockpiling Plan B and abortion pills. Here's what experts have to say.