6.3 involuntary and voluntary childlessness. quote “ children are the cloth of the body. without...
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6.3 Involuntary and Voluntary Childlessness
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Quote
• “ Children are the cloth of the body. Without Children, you are naked.”
• What does this mean to you?
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Quote
• This means that a man’s wealth is measured, in part, by the number of children he has
• A woman’s value to her husband is determined by her ability to bear children.
• To some people a marriage without children is seen as incomplete
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Psychological Impact of Involuntary Childlessness
• Occurs when a couple or individual wants to have children and cannot
• This state is generally the result of one of two factors:
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Psychological Impact of Involuntary Childlessness
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Psychological Impact of Involuntary Childlessness
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Psychological Impact of Involuntary Childlessness
• 40-50% of infertility problems is a result of a physical problem
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Psychological Impact of Involuntary Childlessness
• Men
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Case Study
• 1999 German Sociologists
• 52 interviews with women and men who had undergone treatments for infertility
• Burden of undergoing these treatments can be divided into three categories
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1. Physical Effects
• Side effects from fertility drugs
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2. Objective Burdens
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2. Objective Burdens
• Couples must have intercourse, or have reproductive treatments at a specific date each month
• Also organize the rest of their lives around these dates
• Working women had to use all of their holidays for one year for one treatment
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3. Subjective Psychological Strain
• Emotional relationship between partners is tested
• Treatment often results in personal interests being given up entirely, which leads to stress, anxiety and depression
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Feelings of Involuntary Childlessness
• Guilt
• Sadness/Depression
• Loss of fulfilling a dream
• Hope
• Anger / Isolation
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Overcoming Infertility
• Over to you……