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The Adoption Series with Abimbola Adeluwoye: Infertility & the Option of Adoption

This past 5 December, we marked the first anniversary of a colleague who passed. She was married, and aged forty-two. I remember her service of songs very clearly. A lot of people came to eulogize her. Most had grand things to say about her, even the ones she collided with, constantly. I realized that death makes us so blind to the faults we so earnestly seek in the departed, when they are alive. One thing that was also heard on the lips of many, was how she has lived an unfulfilled life, as she died without bearing a child. Recently, I was taught in Sunday school, that a marriage without children is not a fulfilled one, and had not achieved the purpose for which God created it. Until November last year, I was engaged to someone I was older than. Apart from the age difference, the other major basis on which his male relatives refused to give their consent was my child-bearing abilities, having just passed the 30 year mark. Using the clinical definition of the World Health Organiz