Factors affecting fertility and decisions about childbearing in society

Fertility Factors

Procreation and human reproduction is one of the great and mysterious blessings human kind can experience. Females have a special relationship to this process due to the biological functions assigned to their bodies, requiring responsibility in choice in utilizing this gift of life. The purpose of this essay is to explore the factors affecting fertility by specifically examining the issue of the factors that contribute most to a woman's decision whether or when to have children. This essay will divide this argument into two different perspectives that will help highlight and explain the current situation that dictates much of the reproduction trends in today's world.

The False Pressures From Society

Currently, society, as a group, does not present strong values to women. Although a great impulse of seemingly sexually liberating events have occurred in recent times, things are still pretty bleak if a women is drawing her social cues from mainstream society. Sexual roles are very confused right now as a push to demonstrate the benefits of homosexuality are echoing throughout the country further confusing the landscape and making things difficult to understand.

Society is also experiencing a technological growth spurt that has demonstrated a profound effect on reproduction. Cloning, test tube babies and morning after pills all contribute to the many choices and options a person can have when navigating the reproduction question. Medicine appears to have invaded the personal space of many mothers and can have an overwhelming effect on the personal choice of a woman who is contemplating giving birth.

Although all of these issues are real, they should have little effect on a woman's choice when and how to have a baby. The collective urge to keep everyone on the same level and to eliminate diversity within culture, appears to sway those who are thinking about birth to reconsider and avoid it. A reactionary and exaggerated claim of overpopulation insists that expecting mothers are in fact burdening the earth with another resource, incapable of handling an additional mouth to feed. To make matters worse, the genital mutilation (circumcision) that occurs on most male births and the overdose of vaccinations that are given in the first few hours of life suggests that life will in fact be filled with torture and pain. It appears that future mothers are facing a discouraging society.

The Individual's Choice

Every woman has a choice what to do with her body. This is often misconstrued into a right to kill an unborn baby, but not in my understanding of the situation. Nature dictates that living things change and evolve and this also includes human beings. To suggest that life is inherently evil or wasteful suggests that the originator of the thought thinks very poorly about themselves and values little about the joys of life.

Sex and orgasm feels wonderful and is a part of life. Reproduction is inescapably tied into this practice and guides us and encourages humans into sustaining this practice. Education has nothing to do with one's choice to reproduce and continue the life cycle, as I believe every life is sacred, contrary to the themes of mainstream education and current political policy.

Teen mothers are often ridiculed in this society as uneducated pariahs of pity. This is a false understanding. The educational systems are currently demonstrating their flaws as they keep producing dumber and stupider children. Perhaps society needs more drop out teen mothers who can use their own personal creativity to navigate the challenges of life unlike the programmed masses who take orders from government sources, blindly aligning themselves with propaganda and false paradigms of truth.

The individual is left with herself in determining when is the best time to procreate and how to do it. There is no right or wrong way, only your way. This attitude must be adopted and encouraged if we are to expect a society with independent thought and free will. Otherwise the future is bleak and mechanistic.

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