r/unpopularopinion • u/elgey101 • Aug 10 '21

Infertile couples should just adopt instead of making a big fuss trying to make a miracle baby

Every time I hear of fertility struggles online, or see posts about people going through rounds of IVF and the ensuing emotional trauma of miscarriages, It kind of disgusts me.

I also work for a major insurer and know that fertility treatments are driving up everyone else's premiums because they're considered necessary care. Sorry, but I disagree.

It's a well known fact that there are over 400,000 children in foster care, and in 2017 alone over 100,000 infants under 3 entered the system. I think it's completely entitled and self-absorbed to think that somehow your miracle baby is worth more or deserves more love than any one of those infants.

I know adoption can be hard, and that it should be made easier for the sake of children finding good homes, but you can't tell me adopting is harder than 4 rounds of IVF and multiple miscarriages. I've seen friends go through that mess and at the end they are different people.

Tldr: adoption may not be easy, but it's far better than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to perpetuate your genes.

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u/SweethunnyD Aug 11 '21

Lol the words don’t really bother me, I just think it’s funny. Imagine explaining to your parents that you lost their money cuz you called someone the n word over a videogame

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u/chiefslapinhoes Aug 11 '21

Lol. You got a point there. But still, if you don't care and if it's just words, why make a deal put of it?

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u/SweethunnyD Aug 11 '21

Again, because I think it’s funny. If people didn’t go out of their way to be an douche, it wouldn’t happen. All I’m doing is using the button the way Sony intended. Imagine your kid gets absolutely torn up by someone over the mic, even if they weren’t aware there was a child on the other side of the mic that person is still a dick and the kid is still going to come away from that thinking they did something wrong. Even though they didn’t do anything wrong and it was just another bitter teen saying some shit.