No one talks about those who wanted children and never had them. It’s time we did
The article discusses the often overlooked grief of individuals who wanted children but were unable to have them. It highlights the emotional and psychological impact of infertility and the societal silence surrounding this issue. The author calls for more open conversations about the experiences of those who face unintentional childlessness.
- ▪Global fertility rates are declining, including in Australia.
- ▪Many discussions about fertility solutions ignore those who wanted children but couldn't have them.
- ▪The author reflects on personal experiences with IVF and the emotional toll of infertility.
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| Original publisher | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Canonical URL | https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/no-one-talks-about-those-who-wanted-children-and-never-had-them-it-s-time-we-did-20260515-p5zxik.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 05:00:00 +1000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T19:05:02.842Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T19:05:02.842Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ItIek5mqLPkq |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Sydney Morning Herald.