@arpie Thank you for your good wishes and support. This is becoming interesting regarding sisters and lack of support isn't it? Yourself, @ Janet A and I all have sisters who just don't understand. Like you @arpie, my sister also has mental health issues (due to a horrific car accident) and I was her Carer for 2 years but when I need her now she just isn't there. We seem to have quite a group of us in the "childless with BC" category now. I would like to think we could get a support group going. There must be many other "childless with BC" women out there. As I mentioned in my post of May 14, it seems that there is evidence of not breastfeeding being a factor in getting BC not being nulliparous. @jena I am sorry that you have felt excluded but I hope that you now feel included in this group. As strange as it may sound, I envy you in the fact that you have such a wonderful support group around you. I am so pleased that you have a loving family and such good friends. Can you spare a couple :) ? I will tap into my medical contacts and see what other research or information I can find regarding nulliparous women with BC. @AllyJay I shuddered with horror when I read your story. How can human beings treat each other that way? Thank goodness times have changed and we have progressed (I hope) although I wonder if people will ever learn to stop judging each other. @"Janet A" you have done a good thing in starting this topic and I loved your comment "We are bombarded by the media to believe you are not normal unless you have a family. It's time to break that myth as we are 1 in 8 women who are childless by choice or circumstance and the number is growing". Yes it is time for us to have a voice. @Janet A, we were on a bus tour in Cairo when the lovely muslim guide was telling us that they have very few nursing homes in Egypt as children look after their elderly parents. I asked her what happens if you don't have children and she looked at me quite stunned and eventually said "well of course a niece or nephew would look after you". Of late I have been thinking about her comment (that was on a trip to Egypt in 2012 way before I had BC) and it raises a lot of interesting questions in my mind, not the least being the obvious cultural difference that it is just a fact of life that you have children in some societies. I wonder if there are women on here who are childless with BC and come from a cultural background that just assumes (I hate that word) and expects every-one to have children? If so, I would love to hear your story. Well, yet again I seem to have prattled on for an age. It is 3.45am and I am unable to sleep yet again! Thank you all for listening. I look forward to our continuing friendships. Ann xx
