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From my perspective, it shouldn't. Yes, its cold and heartless to say so, but wanting children isn't a health issue.
by Aloha 8y ago
From my perspective, it shouldn't. Yes, its cold and heartless to say so, but wanting children isn't a health issue.
- fastball 8y agoCould you not argue that it is a mental health issue?
- thanatos_dem 8y agoI feel like people go more crazy as a result of having kids than as a result of not having them.
- silencio 8y agoSpeaking as someone with infertility working on kid #2 via IVF right now, nothing positive comes out of wanting kids but not being able to have them. (Also with the big disclaimer that adopting children costs just as much if not more, in some way or another...) There's parent nights out and dates with my partner to rant about toddlers being shits that are nice to have, but my fertility clinic has an MFT on staff and my old fertility clinic had referrals out for therapy and support groups facilitated by therapists. After almost 18 months the first time, too, I worked out a lot of depression and anger through 1:1 therapy weekly for months. I'm heavily relying on those old coping mechanisms, this time around. Just. does. not. compare.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI'm not sure I agree. I don't want kids myself, so it would be easy for me to say it isn't important to a meaningful life, but it is a significant biological drive and, in a way, denying someone the ability to bear children is condemning them to a form of death.
- acpetrov 8y agoShould an infertile couple have a right to a surrogate mother
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoIt's a little annoying that it is so impossible to argue that maybe we should consider an issue more deeply without being pegged to an extreme opposite of the consensus.
- anoncake 8y agoNot being able to have children is clearly a health issue.
- Aloha 8y agoHow so? Some percentage of everything on the planet is infertile and cannot reproduce, thats just the nature of genetics - why should humans get a very expensive special exception? its not as if we have a shortage of people having babies, or a shortage of kids needing a home either. I don't think you have a fundamental right propagate your genetic material.
- anoncake 8y agoThis is a ridiculous question and you know it.