‘Based on what I see in the men around me, becoming fathers, this act of maturation, has to be thrust upon them, but they are not actively seeking it.’‘Based on what I see in the men around me, becoming fathers, this act of maturation, has to be thrust upon them, but they are not actively seeking it.’wo and a half years ago I opened my legs so a doctor could inseminate me with a stranger’s sperm.
I first encountered this reticence in my happy partnership of four years. The reason the relationship ended when I was in my late 30s? My boyfriend wasn’t ready to have children. Part of men’s indifference to parenting is the fallacy that men can produce a child right up to a whiskery age. But male infertility increases over the age of 40 – and is a key factor in men’s growing childlessness. Pay heed men: despite what you think, you can’t necessarily make babies forever.
It seems, that like the men in Nordic countries, Australian men are delaying childbirth – given the fact that single women are now the largest group to use donor sperm through assisted reproduction.
My first relationship was with someone who met the description here. My 2nd was with someone who had accidentally had a child at 21 and didnt want any more. By the time I met a man who wanted a child with me, it was too late
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If women are delaying the age of first pregnancy, it only stands to reason that so are the men. 🤔 This article weirdly makes men the bad guy here for wanting maturity, for wanting stability, for not being ready in general, and for thinking reproduction is the domain of women.?
Men don't childbirth. They start families, but the birth part is women, let's not give credit where it isn't due, and diminishes others.
Yeah, nah