Thursday, April 19, 2012

From No Children to Child Full

By Laura Carroll


These days there are several reasons which reveal why a lady ends up not having any youngsters. It could be that she's not prepared to become a mummy at that point in her life, given educational or career goals. It may be because she hasn't decided for sure yet whether she would like youngsters. Or she might know that she doesn't ever wish to have the experience of parenthood. Or she could have fertility issues.

Or she may be what Melanie Notkin, creator of savvyauntie.com and author of Savvy Auntie recently called herself: "circumstantially infertile." By this she means she mostly wanted children, but the right circumstance has never presented itself namely that she hasn't found love, Or the right partner to have a child withâ€"yet.

Unless she knows she is sterile, might it also be more correct to claim she's child less By circumstance To the best of her understanding she can biologically have kids so she's not infertile. She's kid less Because she wants youngsters but doesn't have them, and is in that circumstance as the circumstances she would like for herself aren't in place yet.

Considering it this way, she remains childless by choice. It is her choice to hang around for the right partner. There are other selections; she might have a young child on her very own. She could adopt a child and raise it on her own. Waiting for the right circumstance is actually a choice.

She may not have a child of her own, but it's not left her non-maternal. Here are some deeply smart words from this savvy auntie:

I love the youngsters in my life with inexhaustible devotion. If I wasn't meant to be a mother to 2.1 youngsters, then perhaps I was planned to be motherly to several more. From a girl in Tanzania I have adopted as a niece and e-mail with several times per week, to the tiny ones down the hall in my house building, and naturally to my extraordinary nephew and nieces by relation, I'm an aunt.

I'm not childless, I'm childfull. I'm not a mummy but I'm maternal to the girls that are on the opposite side of hope, know you're stronger than your womb. You are maternal whether motherhood ever comes.

Desiring to be a mummy or not, like Melanie, here's to finding the childfull place that is right for each one of us.




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