How to Help, Not Hurt, Couples Experiencing Infertility
Millions of couples struggle with infertility and the pain of such reality is never more punctuated than on days like Mother's Day.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in eight couples experience fertility issues and more than 7 million women recieve infertility services.
Watch licensed Family Therapist Linda Mintle discuss how the Church should minister to women who experience infertility and some common mistakes Christians make.
A recent survey reveals an alarming number of people do not know basic information about fertility. The statistics are leading some health advocates to push for fertility education at regular doctor visits and even in schools as part of the sex education curriculum.
In a national survey of women ages 25-45, nearly half of respondents said they did not know or only vaguely knew that after age 35 a woman's egg supply declines, making it harder to get pregnant.
Women who do get pregnant over age 35 are considered "high risk" because the chance of complications, including miscarriage, is much higher than for women under the age of 35.
More than half of the women over the age of 35 who took part in the survey and who wanted to become mothers said they would have made different lifestyle choices when they were younger if they had been properly educated about fertility issues.
