"We are here, we walk among the general public, 1 in 8. Look around, and chances are you do know someone other than yourself who has been touched by infertility. We are here, but we are not seen."
https://infertilegirlinafertileworld.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/hidden-in-plain-sight/#comments
"Rosner’s research shows that infertility often goes hand-in-hand with unacknowledged, or disenfranchised, grief...She found that the women’s ability to fully acknowledge, grieve and integrate, rather than disavow, the numerous losses of infertility into their life story facilitated personal growth, what Rosner refers to as “post-traumatic growth.”
https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-researcher-looks-infertility-s-impact-women
"Several recent studies point to an increased social acceptance of women who choose to remain child-free in societies with greater gender parity. In other words, the larger the space women can occupy, the more opportunity there is for a variety of life choices for women. In places where women have greater power, there is less policing of the role of mother and room for a more inclusive view of how to be a woman."
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2016/opinion/social-exclusion-of-childless-women
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In other words - to me it seems like social exclusion of one type of person is not that different from social exclusion of another.
"Social exclusion at the individual level results in an individual's exclusion from meaningful participation in society. An example is the exclusion of single mothers from the welfare system prior to welfare reforms of the 1900s."
"Single mothers were previously marginalized in spite of their significant role in the socializing of children due to views that an individual can only contribute meaningfully to society through "gainful" employment as well as a cultural bias against unwed mothers."
"More broadly, many women face social exclusion."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_exclusion
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