Aging and involuntary childlessness: does it affect men?

Kawasaki, Koko and Hadley, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-7648 (2016) Aging and involuntary childlessness: does it affect men? GeroInspired.

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Abstract

Articles and research on the effects of involuntary childlessness often focus on women. Interestingly, we seldom read or hear about childless older men's experiences and whether they feel sadness in not having children. As a Master's student, Dr. Robin Hadley sought to investigate the experiences of childless men as there was little information available. The research culminated in Dr. Hadley's PhD dissertation, Life Without Fatherhood: A Qualitative Study of Older Involuntarily Childless Men. Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Hadley some questions in his area of expertise to which he provided insightful responses.