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This paper examines the impact of cultural and societal advances on the expectations of women to have children and seek fertility/infertility services. The paper defines the importance of the issue, impact on women, reviews the literature, and provides analysis and conclusions. The paper has 13 references and focuses on the need for more policy and programming to address cultural advances.

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Women and Infertility: Societal Expectation of Women Introduction Infertility is a complex condition with medical, social, personal, and familial implications. The pressures related to culture, gender, religion, and other societal expectations influence perceptions of infertility, often in a negative way. While there is disagreement about whether men or women are more stigmatized by their status, there is consensus that it is a stigmatizing condition that transcends gender and culture (Covington and Burns, 2006). Across many cultures, the social expectations for women to have families and to bear children are significant and infertility places

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