1. Parent-Child Relationships

2. Serious Life Questions
Do you plan to have children?
Why or why not?
How many do you plan to have?
What influences your decision to have children and the # you will have?
Do you see an increase or decrease in births for your generation?

3. Why do we choose to have children?
Emotional Reasons
Religious/Cultural
Economic (in past)
Social Pressure
*be aware that some choose not to have children by choice (childless by choice)*

4. The Birth Rate Chart

5. Issues around Fertility
Delayed Parenting – Why are we having children later?
Education
Cohabitation
Later Marriage
Fertility Problems
Women in workforce and career
Individualism

6. Issues in Fertility Birth Control and Contraceptives
Teen Birth Rates Dropping
Delayed Child Birth
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Technology and Childbirth
Assisted Human Reproduction

7. Rights in Canada
Payment of compensation to a surrogate is prohibited. Surrogacy is legal in Canada
Purchase of gametes from a sperm donor, an ovum donor or an embryo donor is a prohibited activity.
Egg donation is not illegal in Canada.
Several of Toronto area clinics, but not all, are open to third party reproductive technology. Fewer of the clinics outside the greater Toronto area are open to egg donation and/or surrogacy.

8. Fertility/Pre-Natal Options
ART in the US/Canada has more than doubled since ten years ago. Look up the following terms online and be prepared to discuss Wednesday:
Invitro Fertiliztion
IVF with Sperm Injection (ICSI)
Artificial Insemination (IUI)
Sex Selection (USA)
Surrogacy
Cryopreservation (Freezing eggs and Embryos)
Fertility Medications
Pre-Genetic Screening
Pre-Genetic Diagnosis