By James H. Monach
Examines the explanations of childlessness, the supply of selections for and at a time of swiftly constructing remedies for infertility and new legislative controls, appears to be like on the studies and perspectives of childless undefined.
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The factors in the social 26 Childless: no choice situation of the couple and in the nature of the infertility services available to them, which, jointly or separately, contribute to their experience of stress will become evident. Emphasising the general level of anxiety experienced by these people might serve to discourage those too ready to attribute psychological causes to their problems in the absence of clear pathology. My purpose is not to deny the importance of these issues. The danger is that they are used to construct a residual etiological category, which indiscriminately conflates cause and effect.
Particularly in the film performance with Richard 28 Childless: no choice Burton as George and Elizabeth Taylor as Martha. The play recounts the battleground that their marriage has become; the utter hopelessness of reclaiming the experience of love between the partners. The central failure, childlessness, has sapped their relationship of all warmth and affection. Their desperation to produce a child, and the shared perception that, without a child, the marriage has no meaning—and nor have their own lives—leads them to produce a fantasy son.
0 in 1988 (total births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, OPCS 1990). 1. Demographic conditions are undoubtedly more propitious for the resourcing of infertility investigation than they have been. The increasing efficacy of medical treatment, and the massive strides that have been made in scientific understanding of the reproductive processes, might, however, serve to off-set these factors which are tending to raise rates of infertility. Our knowledge is still too scant to answer this question with certainty: however, childlessness is certainly more common than was once thought.