Infertility

According to health workers, however, there has been a sea change in people's attitudes recently as a result of awareness campaigns, which also involve progressive religious leaders.

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"Everything came late.

I lost my voice; I got it back.

I thought I'd never get married; I got married.

Then I couldn't have children; I had my kid.

I think everything in my whole life was a miracle." Better late than never?

"I don't think the age thing is a big deal.

You don't want to be looking under the hood all the time to check the mileage.

People aren't cars.

All this stuff with 'by this time, by that time'.

We are so inundated by what we're supposed to think, what we're supposed to like, how we're supposed to look, when we're supposed to look that way, how we're supposed to dress, when we're supposed to dress that way, that we have no sense of who we are as individuals any more.

And I believe I'm not a sheep.

I don't want to be a sheep." Lauper's musical career is back on track now, but the independence she has always fought for has been curtailed once more, this time by parenthood.

Not only does it require Job-like patience, but there are the other parents to deal with.

"As a kid I was an oddball.

I didn't fit in.

I'm still antisocial.

I mean, I like people but don't like to fit in.

"The hardest thing for me is the hockey-mum stuff.

I have to hang out with people I have nothing in common with.

They're nice enough, but my life is so f-ing different." And so somewhere in rural Connecticut perhaps a milder version of her own childhood alienation is being played out, with Declyn, 8, at the centre.

"My son is a little odd...

It is not clear why the birth of a normal, healthy child is "injurious" in the way that other torts are.

(Courts have, by contrast, permitted recovery for intentional misrepresentations about sterility, birth control, or sexual health where the misled party contracts a sexually transmitted disease, or suffers an ectopic pregnancy that requires surgical intervention.

There, the injuries are obvious.) Finally, even if the rights facts were alleged and proven, courts have been unwilling to apply conventional tort principles to this type of case.

A "purely legalistic" approach, in the words of one court, would be inappropriate for a case involving such private conduct and interaction between two adults.

(A California court suggested that the inquiry into the facts by a court would itself violate the parties' constitutional right to privacy and control over reproductive decisionmaking.) Under state child support laws, monetary obligations to children are determined based solely on parental income and children's needs, without regard to any parental misconduct and without consideration of the parents' relative desire to become parents.

Courts have thus refused to apply tort or contract principles in a way that negates or undermines those calculations.

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