Infertility: Most Don't Care, Many Ignore, But It's Fucking Reshaping America Nowadays
This is a perilous discourse that many are just burying their heads about.
If you experience infertility on the male/female/both side, it can be frustrating and alienating and depressing and all sorts of things at once. If you’re in that boat and have stumbled upon this article, let me just trace a few potential resentments you will encounter and how, potentially, to deal with them.
Before we do that, it’s important to note that infertility is a topic most do not care about, because it only impacts about 4 in 10 couples — so, less than half. Thing is? 20 years ago, that was 2 in 10 couples. In another 20-25 years, are we talking 8 in 10 couples? I know a fertility guy and his OB/GYN wife in Waco. They told me that, even five years ago, couples came in and said, “This has happened to no one I know.” Now everyone comes in with a story of someone who struggled. Look at the political blowback to IVF in Alabama. This shit touches people. And now, with “Spermageddon,” we have an understanding of infertility in males too.
Most people still ignore the topic, of course, and default every discussion from age 27 to age 69 to be about their children. But, the increase of infertility and secondary infertility will utterly reshape the American map in the next decade or two. So, let’s discuss some of it more — including some of what your friends might be experiencing as they grapple with this stuff.
Resentment Of Others
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