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Podcast: Love and Life with Dr. Karin and Pastor Elliott
Episode: When You’re Not a Mother, But Wanted to Be: World Childless Week with Jody Day of Gateway Women Ep. 155
Description: Women without children walk the road less traveled—and for the vast majority of them, this path was not of their choosing. In fact, of the women who reach midlife without children, only 10% planned to be “child free”, while 10% are childless due to infertility, and a full 80% are childless not by choice but rather, due to circumstances. Jody Day of Gateway Women shares her personal journey and discusses the many layers of disenfranchised grief surrounding childlessness. Specifically, we cover:
· Second wave feminism and the unintended consequence of circumstantial childlessness.
· The emotional, physical, and financial complexities of IVF—the real stats.<...