Infertility: A Study Of Inequality

How does a person come to decide if they want to be a parent or not? The formation of procreative identities in men and women is a complex topic with many influencing factors. Tamara G. Coon Sells set out to distinguish what some of these factors were in her study of 14 unmarried, childfree graduate students (2013, p. 133). Analyzing the narrative submissions of her sample, she was able to pinpoint 5 different themes impacting the development of both men’s and women’s procreative identity: biological, deterrents, fear, hesitation, and pressure (p. 144).

Making big choices in life can be difficult, especially if that big choice is having children. There are many men and women who are infertile that still want to have children. Most decide to adopt other children who do not have families or their families do not want them. But when adoption is not an option, there is now a way where those men and women can have their own children together through fertility treatments. Fertility treatments could be a good thing:being able to freeze egg and sperm, they can help infertile couples, and avoiding transmitted diseases would be easier.

Infertility is the fundamental lacking of the ability to conceive a baby, and both men and women can have this problem. Dr. Clark, our guest speaker in class pointed out that approximately 30% of men and women are infertile, while 25% of infertility cannot be explain by science yet. Because of that, infertility is no longer considered as a lifestyle problem but a disease instead. According to Dr. Clark, one of the options for the infertility patients today is the use of stem cell therapies to treat infertility, and one of the recent popular stem cell therapies is reproductive cloning. Reproduction cloning is a process to “produce” a next generation of “you” through somatic cell nuclear transfer. In my paper, I will argue that

Infertility is a severe affliction that many suffer alone with in silence. Resolve New England is a tool in which people can come together to obtain knowledge, stories, and hope in an effort to provide support and advocacy. As a professional nurse, or friend, I would indefinitely recommend Resolve New England, not only as an educational outlet, but also as a psychological outlet.

The sexuality and reproductive assessment helps describes sexual fulfillment, sexual perception, and sexual self –concepts. (Edelman & Mandel, 2011). This assessment is focused on the satisfaction of one’s sexual life, and the changes that take place throughout a lifespan. Another pattern is the coping-stress tolerance pattern. This focuses on the family’s adaption to internal and external pressures related to their health, environment, and social status and how they cope with these pressures in their day to day lives. Finally, the last pattern is the values and belief pattern. Values and beliefs vary in different cultures. Therefore, the focus of this pattern is one’s attitude regarding the meaning of life, spirituality, and how these attitudes affect the family related health problems. (Edelman & Mandle, 2011).

THE NO-BABY BOOM, by Anne Kingston, published in March 2014 was about the social infertility rates of twenty-first century women. Kingston uses credible evidence that shows that she wants to promote awareness and change the perception of how society views the topic of infertility. The way Kingston presents the information to the reader is by providing statistics, personal stories, and her personal opinion on the idea of the “childless” mother. Readers this is most likely to appeal to is people who are struggling with infertility. The concern and values throughout this article is the infertility rate of women and the way it affects their life styles. The reason that Kingston published this article is to let people become more aware of the

The recruiting phase of the study proved to be quite challenging. Initially the researcher recruited couples that were childless. As a result, there was reluctance in terms of participants coming forward to take part in the study. The first couple, who, participated in the study consisted of a wife who wanted to share her story and a husband who supported her. After completing the individual interviews, the couple declined to participate in the joint interview. The couple struggled with being childless and although they found ways to compensate via careers, education and caretaking of others, the disappointment with being unable to parent was profound. The wife expressed such strong emotions and shared that discussing her infertility was a deep and powerful experience for her. Through this interview, the researcher began to understand the emotional intensity of this topic. It was an insightful and enriching interview experience.

In creating the term reproductive resilience, it takes a new perspective of pregnancy from it being a deficit to creating a strength-based approach point of view. In the study, 750 female adolescents ages 15-19 were interviewed on how they deal with teenage pregnancy. Through the interviews they found that relationships with others, having economic capital, a strong identity of themselves, and knowing their value were all behaviors of developing strong competencies for dealing with teen pregnancy. By creating the term reproductive resilience, it also encourages the young mothers to see their life and their pregnancy as a sign of resilience instead of a sign of regret or disappointment. By changing the name to reflect something positive it in turn can create more positive outcomes instead of negative

Look no further than Trachman Law Center in Boulder,CO for all of your legal family formation needs. We specialize in this type of law, making us the perfect choice for your infertility lawyer. An infertility lawyer can and does handle all aspect of this type of law. This includes sperm donation, surrogacy, and pre birth orders. It's important to have all legal documents in place before the birth of a baby. Pre birth orders for example, are important during adoptions. These papers specify that the adoptive parents take responsibility for the baby from birth on. These papers benefit both the birth parents and the adoptive parents. These papers give paternal rights to the adoptive parents and ensures that their names are entered onto the birth

Since contemporary Jewish communities view infertility as a medical condition, infertility is viewed as something that is permissible to alter via reproductive technology. R. Michael Gold notes that the typical Jewish position on medicine has always been non-fatalist That is, Judaism does not teach that everything must be accepted as God’s will. In substantiating this claim with respect to reproductive technology, he draws upon the stories of the matriarchs. He asserts that throughout the narratives of Sarah, Racheal, and Hannah, barrenness was viewed as a great loss. However, he shows that “not one biblical matriarch passively accepted her infertility.” When viewed from this perspective, IVF then becomes a way to exercise female agency and empowerment by reclaiming reproductive

Have you or your family been affected by Infertility? If so this is a Counselling-therapy support group for families that have been affected by Infertilty. It provides an opportunity to attend an informal group where you will have the chance to meet with other families who have been through similar experiences. Multi Family Support Groups are an evidenced based approach to helping people deal with life

In today’s society, people are more advanced and have control over an extensive amount of things that ancestors never would have dreamed about. One of these things is the act of semen being “donated” to provide to women in order to achieve pregnancy. Sperm banks have led to the contribution of creating many happy families. However, research has proven that it can cause long term effects. The use of sperm banks as an option for pregnancy has negative effects on the children, mothers, and donors. This act of artificial insemination has the ability to effect the mental and physical state of the child and mother, and also society’s view of the donor.

Research on applicability of specific models of couple therapy for couples facing issues around infertility and treatment is limited because of the array of psychological and interpersonal problems the couples face. One approach researched is cognitive behavioral marital therapy (CBMT). According to theorists of cognitive-behavior, change in behaviors within a couple arises through marital distress (Myers & Wark, 1996). The behaviors occur disproportionately damaging to the relationship when compared to the benefit of the behavior (Myers & Wark, 1996). The applicability of this model in addressing problems related to infertility experienced by couples can address a broad range of issues: individual response to unconscious thoughts, and self-evaluation and perceptions, sexual dysfunction, and function of communication in a marital relationship (Myers & Wark, 1996). An argument against the use of CBMT in working with couples with issues of infertility is that the focus on behavior of the approach lacks sympathy. For this particular population of couples, the approach may not be perceived as suitable to meet their needs in struggling with an emotionally charged issue (Myers & Wark, 1996).

• Ovulation disorders such as PCOS and ovarian insufficiency. Without ovulation, a pregnancy can’t happen. Ovulation disorders are the most common cause of infertility in women.

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