Mr. Smith was past thirty, tall, Master?s Degree educated, reasonably good looking with a full head of hair and a lean body. Mrs. Smith was 27, very pretty, very well built, and had advanced to an Associate?s degree at a junior college.
As Jerry?s career advanced rapidly, with the first years a series of gains and loss, Katie had held a steady job. Her job, though not highly paid, had kept them going for much of the early years.
Now Jerry was highly successful in his business. He had told Katie to quit her job and return to college ?on a part time basis so that she could practice just being a housewife for a change.? They had been married for eight years, and for the first several had practiced birth control.
Now firmly established financially, they gave up on the birth control. After three months, the Smiths were still unable to conceive children, so they went to a fertility clinic where the Mrs. happened to have a friend named Milly, who worked there. It was determined that the husband's sperm count was very low, so low that artificial insemination would not work with him as a donor. Disappointed, they went home. After talking, they decided that they needed to come up with alternatives to have children.
At first adoption was considered. Mrs. Smith, however, felt very strongly about wanting to experience motherhood and conceiving her own child. Again the subject of artificial insemination came up, but Mrs. Smith did not want to conceive that way. She felt it to be "too impersonal and clinical."
"Besides," Katie added, "How could I ever be sure that the sperm they use actually comes from a man who meets our desired standards? There are always mistakes."
After much soul-searching and discussion her husband finally went along with Mrs. Smith's
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As Jerry?s career advanced rapidly, with the first years a series of gains and loss, Katie had held a steady job. Her job, though not highly paid, had kept them going for much of the early years.
Now Jerry was highly successful in his business. He had told Katie to quit her job and return to college ?on a part time basis so that she could practice just being a housewife for a change.? They had been married for eight years, and for the first several had practiced birth control.
Now firmly established financially, they gave up on the birth control. After three months, the Smiths were still unable to conceive children, so they went to a fertility clinic where the Mrs. happened to have a friend named Milly, who worked there. It was determined that the husband's sperm count was very low, so low that artificial insemination would not work with him as a donor. Disappointed, they went home. After talking, they decided that they needed to come up with alternatives to have children.
At first adoption was considered. Mrs. Smith, however, felt very strongly about wanting to experience motherhood and conceiving her own child. Again the subject of artificial insemination came up, but Mrs. Smith did not want to conceive that way. She felt it to be "too impersonal and clinical."
"Besides," Katie added, "How could I ever be sure that the sperm they use actually comes from a man who meets our desired standards? There are always mistakes."
After much soul-searching and discussion her husband finally went along with Mrs. Smith's
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