
'People think you're not a normal woman if you don't want kids'
Just before her 40th birthday, Stephanie Joy Phillips was told she could not be a mother due to infertility. Though she wanted children, she still feels judged for her lack of them, saying that childless people are often looked at with pity, negativity, and ignorance.
“Through grief you've got all these dark, dirty, horrible emotions that are natural but you need to release them and it's again extremely hard to do that when your grief is disenfranchised,” she said....
“Through grief you've got all these dark, dirty, horrible emotions that are natural but you need to release them and it's again extremely hard to do that when your grief is disenfranchised,” she said....