In a small conference room overlooking this city’s smog-shrouded skyline, Huang Jinlai outlines his offer to China’s childless elite: for $240,000, a baby with your DNA, gender of your choice, born by a coddled but captive rural woman.
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Later, Baby: Will Freezing Your Eggs Free Your Career?
There comes a point in every childless woman’s life, usually around 35, when the larger world becomes very interested in her womb. Friends and family inquire about its health, asking why it’s not being utilized, when it will be, and then: Will it even work? For those who do want children, the pressure can be crushing and counterproductive.
The Otherhood: Single Women Face ‘Circumstantial Infertility’
The “Otherhood” is made up of well educated, happy and financially independent women who find, that as their fertility wanes, they are still single and childless.
Fertility: The Hardest Border I’ve Ever Tried to Cross
Michelle Shephard has traveled the world for the Toronto Star as a national security reporter. At some point, the issue of children became a touchy subject for her as she visited countries where being “childless” was grounds for divorce, or public shame.
London Sees ‘Boom’ in Sperm Donation
Lawyers, film-makers and financiers are behind a sperm donation “boom” in the capital.New figures published today give an insight for the first time into the profile of donors. Instead of students, professionals are now among altruistic Londoners helping childless couples become parents.
Awareness on Infertility Still Low in Asia
Most married couples look forward to have children of their own but some are less fortunate, being childless even after years of marriage.Infertility becomes a problem for married couples in realising an important goal in their life, that is to have children of their own, and some may attribute the situation to fate, for lack of any other explanation.
Infertility Struggles Brings Sisters Together
Johnston and her husband Joby tried fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization twice. Still, after years of trying, the loving, young couple was childless. Annie hadn’t even had one positive pregnancy test in all the years she had been trying to conceive. …Annie didn’t have the baby she had hoped for, but she did have an older sister to turn to who had watched Annie struggle through infertility.
Shortage of Sperm Donors
About 80 per cent of donated sperm used by singles, lesbian couples and other childless women in Canberra is flown in from overseas, mostly the United States.
Involuntary Childlessness
Recently, I had a woman struggling with infertility come into my office for counseling. After years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, three miscarriages, and a husband unwilling to consider other family-building options, she is considering giving up her dream of having another child. She wanted to know if she would ever get over her childlessness. Read full article.