Hey, I (and many other people) would settle for one right about now!
I don't think anyone should be able to arbitrarily tell you how many children you can or can't have, but I would like some more responsibility from the IVF-related medical professionals, which is how the vast majority of cases occur. Make it mandatory for people to have counselling or something before they get additional IVF treatments.
The doctors should find out why parents want large numbers of kids in the first place, and how they plan to support them, not just pay for the IVF treatments. While they're at it, talk about why these parents feel adopting or fostering the additional kids isn't an option for them. That should avoid the crazy octo-mom phenomenon, and let people who genuinely just want big families be happy, too.
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Date: 2009-03-20 11:31 pm (UTC)I don't think anyone should be able to arbitrarily tell you how many children you can or can't have, but I would like some more responsibility from the IVF-related medical professionals, which is how the vast majority of cases occur. Make it mandatory for people to have counselling or something before they get additional IVF treatments.
The doctors should find out why parents want large numbers of kids in the first place, and how they plan to support them, not just pay for the IVF treatments. While they're at it, talk about why these parents feel adopting or fostering the additional kids isn't an option for them. That should avoid the crazy octo-mom phenomenon, and let people who genuinely just want big families be happy, too.