If you think men don’t care about having kids, listen to what these childless men have to say

Hadley, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-7648 (2014) If you think men don’t care about having kids, listen to what these childless men have to say. Inside MAN.

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Abstract

Have you ever stopped to think what if feels like for men who don’t become fathers? Robin Hadley has and here he shares the thoughts of some of the men he’s interviewed about being childless. — This is article #13 in our series of #100Voices4Men and boys In my research, I have been honoured to interview men in the UK about their experiences of wanting to be a ‘Dad’. All the meetings have been moving and reflected some aspect of my own thoughts and feelings regarding not becoming a father – a status so easily achieved and important that it can’t usually be talked about. What do the men say? Well quite, a lot and I can just give a flavour of the depth and range that the impact of male involuntary childlessness has had on them.