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Review Article Volume 11 Issue 3
Should couples wanting a biologically-related child keep trying?
Edmund G Howe
Received: July 29, 2025 | Published: August 14, 2025
Citation: Howe EG. Should couples wanting a biologically-related child keep trying? Pregnancy & Child Birth 2025;11(2):48-52. DOI: 10.15406/ipcb.2025.11.00322
Abstract
When couples try over time again and again to have a first biologically-related child and they remain unsuccessful, this may be among the most painful ordeals a couple can experience. This paper will discuss some of the most important competing pros and cons that couples should consider when they face this question. If couples can perceive the pressures they may face, this may help them prepare for them. Some of these concerns may, however, lie outside these partners conscious awareness. This article will therefore highlight stresses especially likely to remain hidden. This discussion will include losses such as their going into debt, how loved ones may seek to persuade them to stop trying, and how they may themselves place too much decision-making weight on logic rather than their feelings. even seek to shame them to move them to do this. These partners may use their own mirroring logic to convince themselves that they have no choice but to go this same way. The possibilities that one or both partners’ emotions after not trying may cloud their subsequent lives or prevent their relationship from recovering will, on the other hand, also be considered. The main point of this article is for such couples to if facing this decision, not underestimate its likely most serious possible ramifications that may go far beyond merely what they decide. This paper will also review key approaches that partners should consider if they decide not to try again or they try but then this last effort again fails.
Keywords: biologically- related child, couples, partners, debt, moral, feelings, retrospective, regret, meaning, grief, acceptance
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