But that didn't make the pain any less real. I know she didn't mean anything by it.
People never do.
That's part of the problem, said Brock. People with children have no idea how it feels to want a child and not be able to conceive. She and her husband, Ken, have been married for seven years, but he has a chromosomal abnormality that makes it impossible for him to father children. They're among the 15 percent of American couples who want to become parents but can't have babies of their own, and it's a constant source of frustration and sorrow in their lives. Even at occasions like church activities, we're sometimes treated like we're not really a family because we don't have children.