1. Involuntary & Voluntary Childlessness

2. Voluntary Childlessness
Create a T chart- pros and cons of having kids
Discuss with people at your table, why you do or don’t want to have kids

3. Voluntary Childlessness
Voluntary Childlessness- People who choose not to have kids

4. What do you think of this quote?
“ Children are the cloth of the body. Without Children, you are naked.”

5. Could it be…
That a man’s wealth is measured, in part, by the number of children he has?
Or that a woman’s value to her husband is determined by her ability to bear children?
Do you agree that to some, marriage without children is seen as incomplete?

6. Involuntary Childlessness
Involuntary Childlessness- Couple or individual who wants to have children and cannot
This state is generally the result of one of two factors:
1. No partner
% of infertility due to physical problems

7. Option 1- Fertility Drugs
Drugs release hormones that induce ovulation to boost egg production and make uterus more receptive to embryo implantation
40-45% success rate with women who ovulate
As cheap as $60 a cycle
Can result in a “litter”

8. Option 2- Artificial Insemination
Specially “washed” sperm is inserted directly into uterus- often done in conjunction with drugs
Best for low sperm count and women with acidic vaginas
Easy to do, in doctors office
15-20% success rate
Under $1000
Lets check out a video:
(6:00) ‘Modern methods of fertility treatment’

9. Option 3- Get some different sperm
Dads sperm is infertile so pay $300-$400 and get someone else’s
Estimated 15% get pregnant in one cycle, 80% after 6 cycles
Article- ‘Fathers Day- Two non-traditional dads, two different paths
Then Video (9:27) ‘Finding Free Sperm Donors Online’
Then article ‘Why this sperm donor is being ordered to pay child support’

10. Option 4- In Vitro Fertilization
Take eggs out, fertilize in a lab, embryo develops, plant back inside uterus
Good for women with endometriosis
41% (under 35), 32% (35-37), 23% (38-40)
$8000 per cycle + drug costs

11. Option 5- Egg Donation
Older couple gets young egg, fertilized with male sperm, implanted in old uterus
$15000-$30000
Would you donate your eggs? Would you sell them?
Article- ‘Competing Perspectives’ pg
Brainstorm in groups:
-Should you be able to sell your eggs & sperm?
-Brainstorm a few reasons why/why not…

12. Option 6- Surrogacy Borrow a womb!
Couples fertilized egg implanted OR your egg gets inseminated
$ $100000
Article- ‘Surrogacy in Canada Online’

13. There are some more methods, but you get the idea…
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (best sperm injected into egg directly then IVF)
Donor Embryos- Couples who got pregnant through IVF 7 don’t need their extra eggs
Reproductive surgery- remove scaring

14. Adoption
Article- ‘What is Open Adoption’

15. Retrieved 16 Nov 2014 from http://www. children. gov. on

16. International Adoption
Video- CBC news in review- November ‘Adoption, looking for a baby abroad’