Monday, March 28, 2011

No, I don't have children. But it's MY business | Mail Online

No, I don't have children. But it's MY business | Mail Online: "Maybe I’m being oversensitive, but I find it incredible a stranger thinks it’s fine to probe my ability or desire to procreate. For I’m certain the same people would never dream of asking me to reveal my salary, how often I have sex, or who I voted for.

So why is the subject of whether my eggs will remain unfertilised fair game? Do people not suspect that this, too, might be a sensitive issue? For all they know, I could have been trying for a baby for ten years. Perhaps I’ve had several failed attempts at IVF, or suffered multiple miscarriages.

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1 comment:

Julie K said...

When I'm asked by someone I don't know well at all, I just tell them we can't. And it's true, we can't. Of course, if they don't know me well enough to know I don't want kids, they don't know the reason we can't is because my husband had a vasectomy.