Zimbabwe: Maybe People Facing Infertility Are Not the Problem – – We Are

A month ago, someone asked me to write about how to overcome the stigma of infertility, and as I reflected on that question, I realised that perhaps the couples and individuals facing infertility are not the issue, we are.

We are the aunties, uncles, parents, in-laws, friends, colleagues, church members and communities who sometimes treat infertility as though it is a plague, who begin to look at people differently when the children do not come, who ask questions, make comments, speculate about…