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Janet_A
8 years agoMember
Breast Cancer, Childlessness and Us
This group has been formed to support the childless men and women by choice or by circumstance during treatment or after treatment. As childless women, we are 1 in 8 women and incredibly, 1 in 8 wome...
June1952
8 years agoMember
Hi there @"Janet A"
Thanks for starting the group - hope you get many ladies to join as being childless can be a challenge as we age. All the things myself and my partner did for our parents won't be happening for us. To make matter worse we have no siblings to call on.
Whether ladies are childless because they simply had no strong feeling to have the rug-rats around or, like me, found it was not a possibility (and I was a kindergarten teacher) we are all without that close support.
I have joined and would encourage other childless ladies to join so we can get conversations going, provide specific coping strategies and generally support each other in times of need
Congratulations Janet.
Summer
Thanks for starting the group - hope you get many ladies to join as being childless can be a challenge as we age. All the things myself and my partner did for our parents won't be happening for us. To make matter worse we have no siblings to call on.
Whether ladies are childless because they simply had no strong feeling to have the rug-rats around or, like me, found it was not a possibility (and I was a kindergarten teacher) we are all without that close support.
I have joined and would encourage other childless ladies to join so we can get conversations going, provide specific coping strategies and generally support each other in times of need
Congratulations Janet.
Summer