Remaining childless has many potential advantages. Individuals and couples have much more time for themselves, more financial resources, and more spontaneity in regard to their recreational, social, and work patterns. Non-parents can more fully pursue professional goals. Having a child also provides the individual with many advantages. Children give as well as receive love, and their presence may enhance the love between couples as they share in the experiences of raising their offspring.
Parenthood also provides the individuals with the opportunity to grow personally in many ways.
Conception Picking the right time for intercourse is important in increasing the probability of conception. Conception is most likely to occur during a six-day period ending on the day of ovulation. It has been estimated that as many as 1 in 6 US couples attempting pregnancy experiences fertility problems. Infertility is not only the inability to conceive any children, but also the inability to conceive a second child. Female infertility Failure to ovulate at regular intervals is quite common due to age, hormone imbalances, severe vitamin deficiencies, metabolic disturbances, poor nutrition, genetic factors, emotional stress, or medical conditions.