101 Sentences With "able to have children"

Apparently, she's past the point of being able to have children.

You won't be able to find a man; you won't be able to have children.

"As a result of that abortion, I was never able to have children," she said.

She's still not sure if she'll be able to have children once she's off the medication.

And she says she sometimes fears she'll never be able to have children of her own.

"This is the difference between a returning military member being able to have children or not," Mr. Tipton said.

So, she and her husband Jeff were devastated when they learned that they would not be able to have children.

The young woman explained that she was told she would never be able to have children when she was 16.

Women will be able to have children into their 40s with new technologies, allowing them to postpone starting a family.

Now that the topic has been broached, he's nervous that he might not be able to have children on his own.

"I am looking for a wife who is ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible," Arthur wrote.

Their study reports that nearly four out of 10 women who undergo the procedure are able to have children later in life.

Because of the disease, Watkins was told she'd never be able to have children, but she welcomed a daughter, Chase, in 2000.

Perez said family members had told her she likely would never be able to have children because she was Type 1 diabetic.

By 1984, she underwent a partial hysterectomy and was told she'd never be able to have children with her husband, Carl Thomas Dean.

"I personally feared that I may not be able to have children," Jessica Caron, who has Crohn's disease, told Reuters Health by phone.

"My doctors told me I wouldn't be able to have children, but no one mentioned the lifelong consequences for my sexual health," Rodriguez says.

In the Bible section, Rachel offers her "handmaid" Bilhah to Jacob because she's deeply jealous of her sister Leah, who is able to have children.

Bryce calls him "a miracle" because doctors had told Bryce that he likely wouldn't be able to have children as a result of his prostate cancer.

"I did a little bit of a spin on it being that I'm not able to have children and not able to otherwise do that photo," she told SELF.

The biggest change the movies made was to kill off her father, Prince Phillipe, who in the books is alive and well but no longer able to have children.

West's mother decided on adoption when she wasn't able to have children of her own because of scar tissue from a ruptured appendix that she couldn't afford to have removed.

A new pilot program by the Pentagon will pay to have troops' sperm and eggs frozen, so they'd still be able to have children if they are hurt on the battlefield.

She consistently found questions left without an answer: Her doctors couldn't tell her if she'd suffer common side effects, or if she'd be able to have children after her treatment was over.

Before she became a mother of two and with a third child on the way, slain Colorado mom Shanann Watts had been told by doctors that she wouldn't be able to have children.

There's a requisite scene where Lola is told the facts at the clinic: It will take about five minutes, she'll likely experience cramping and bleeding, and she'll still be able to have children.

She says that at the time, she was open with him about the possibility that she wouldn't be able to have children one day, and told him that she'd understand if he ended their relationship.

" Next to a large photo of Baron and the headline "Looking for a Wife," Arthur Brooks wrote, "I am looking for a wife who is ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible.

Although they were both initially told by doctors that they wouldn't be able to have children, they quickly made up for lost time, becoming pregnant with their first sets of twins six years ago through in vitro fertilization.

Husband, not wife, had reproductive issues While Ngila allegedly attacked her because they weren't able to have children, a hospital in Nairobi said Mwende was fertile and it was her husband who had reproductive issues, Daily Nation reported.

The goal is to give those in uniform the peace of mind that if they are hurt on the battlefield — hundreds of veterans suffered injuries to their reproductive organs in Iraq and Afghanistan — they would still be able to have children.

On the second part of the Real Housewives of New York City reunion on Wednesday, Wainstein admitted that at one point, her disease was so bad she was told by doctors that she wasn't going to be able to have children.

"At the time, I didn't fully understand the magnitude of how it would affect us as a couple and as individuals because we kind of thought it would be a given that we would just be able to have children," she said.

PROFESSOR TIM QUINEDeputy Vice Chancellor (education)DR MICHAEL WYKESDirector of Policy, Planning and Business IntelligenceUniversity of Exeter It was pleasing to see The Economist defending those who choose or are not able to have children ("In defence of the childless", July 21964th).

After previously opening up about how doctors told her she would not be able to have children, the 30-year-old singer — who's dating actor Channing Tatum — wrote a series of emotional notes in which she explained she "will be a mother" in the future.

During her Tuesday night Rose Tour concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, the 30-year-old British singer revealed in an emotional speech that she was told by doctors four years ago that she will not be able to have children, reports U.K. outlet Metro.

But her ovaries work normally, which means that, with the help of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and a "gestational surrogate"—a woman willing to carry a baby for someone else—she and her husband were able to have children genetically related to both of them.

If there's a chance that you might not be able to have children or it might make you impotent, or cause erectile dysfunction... I just think if you asked me now and said, 'it's a new thing we're trying,' I'd say 'absolutely no chance.

Young Adult It's not an accident that Mavis and Marlo straddle 40, an age when, for women able to have children, considerations about wanting kids or wanting more kids than you already have start ramping up in tempo akin to a clock running out in a video game level.

On top of that, over the past three years much of the criticism against her has been undeniably sexist, with commentators regularly criticizing her appearance and her voice, with rivals jabbing her for not being able to have children, and with colleagues going to her husband to have her quit.

He fit the bill of a man who doesn't even know how much money he has, especially because he set up a cute little gallery, TKG Arts, just for his ex-fiancée, Judy, to display the sad paintings she does to work through her feelings about never being able to have children.

Among the subset of women unsure about their fertility status, almost two-thirds said they were concerned that they might not be able to have children in the future, 41 percent reported it was stressful to think about getting pregnant, and 59 percent were worried about passing on a genetic risk for cancer.

Moore has publicly said that she has two dogs, but no children, as she wouldn't have been able to have children and do her work.

However, when Mandy tells Tony that she may not be able to have children of her own anymore, he is upset and returns to Hollyoaks, leaving Mandy stranded in a foreign country.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) stated that the multiple sclerosis medicine fingolimod (Gilenya) must not be used in pregnant women and in women able to have children who are not using effective contraception.

The Hiroshima Maidens. pp. 201-12 One maiden, Masako Tachibana, married and moved to Canada. She was not able to have children. On August 1, 1995, she gave an interview to reporter Len Grant of CBC Television.

As stated in his autobiography Tangled Ropes, Graham and his wife Valerie, whom he married in 1978, were never able to have children. Graham has two children from a previous marriage to Madelyn Miluso. His daughter Capella was born on June 8, 1972.Tangled Ropes, p. 125.

Schofield and his wife separated after 19 years. Schofield came out in 2015, and stated "many gay men would envy me for the fact that I've been able to have children."Mark Dapin: Baroque and bogans battle over the menu at lunch with Leo Schofield, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 2015.

Not everything is perfect with her new colleagues either. The secretary Anya is busy searching for her second half. Lyuba is deciding on how to deal with the fact that she is not able to have children, and Katya is mired in a family home which she can no longer tolerate.

Umber tells her that Kanwar had an 'accident' when he was younger. Neeli is disheartened knowing that she will never be able to have children with Kanwar. During one night, Neeli packs her bags and tries to escape her marriage. Umber spots her and pleads for her to come back.

In the Victorian era, fertility rates increased in every decade until 1901, when the rates started evening out. There are several reasons for the increase in birth rates. One is biological: with improving living standards, the percentage of women who were able to have children increased. Another possible explanation is social.

Joe is always abusive towards her and their father. He says "you're not my mom!" to her as an excuse to treat her poorly, she responds "I'm nobody's mom.". He asks her why she isn't married, she answers she "isn't able" to have children. Joe answers that maybe she has an "ugly" (her manly) voice.

Is Jonah's second grade teacher. She used to live in Baltimore but moved to New Bern in the hope of starting over after a really difficult divorce. She was not able to have children which was the reason why her marriage didn't work. Due to her kindness she offered to tutor Jonah after school.

But Sienna's lies are exposed leaving Chloe without a recipient. Kilkelly later reported that Carmel Valentine (Gemma Merna) would be the next character to offering to adopt the baby. Carmel discovers that she may not be able to have children and sees Chloe's predicament as the solution to her problem. However, her boyfriend Jim McGinn (Dan Tetsell) is unhappy.

Steven once shot Jane in the stomach which is the reason for Jane not being able to have children of her own. Once Jane awakes, she tells her about Steven. Linda returns to the Square briefly where she meets Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra). She tells Masood how she wishes Jane would have stayed with him.

It turns out that Claire has a "trifurcated cervix", which means she probably will not be able to have children. Elliot seduces Claire and then urges Beverly to sleep with her. However, Beverly becomes emotionally attached to Claire, and this upsets the equilibrium between the twins. Beverly also begins sharing Claire's abuse of prescription drugs, which he abets through his doctor's authority.

Marcos and Cristina are a well to do couple who had have been married for several years. Their relationship has been strained, in part because they have not been able to have children. They are overjoyed when Cristina unexpectedly gets pregnant. Close to give birth, Cristina’s hopes are shattered when stopping at a gas station she is attacked by a black German Shepherd.

Since fertility peaks at a certain age, pushing childbirth past that age significantly decreases the probability that certain women will be able to have children. The media has been an influence on women's fertility choices:Barber, Jennifer S. and William G. Axinn. 2004. "New Ideas and Fertility Limitation: The Role of Mass Media." Journal of Marriage and Family 66:1180–1200.

The women told him things that he had never known. He knew that his niece was mentally ill and his sister-in-law was not able to have children, circumstances that he attributed to FGC. He never knew how much it hurt and he had never seen what an uncut woman looked like. Diawara wanted his village to follow their lead but he foresaw two problems.

Zoe runs into her ex-boyfriend, Tony Chapman, and they rekindle their relationship. Tony asks Zoe to come and work for him, but she tells him that she cannot leave the Daniels Corporation. Paul falls for Zoe, but after a jealous outburst from him, Zoe leaves to work for Tony. Tony proposes to Zoe and she admits that she may not be able to have children.

Adriana learns from a TV crime drama that spouses cannot be forced to testify against each other, so she surprises Christopher by proposing that, after two years' engagement, they should get married. But when she confesses that she might not be able to have children, he storms out. Tony and Silvio urge him to marry her regardless. Fortified by heroin, he tells her he will.

She is described as irresponsible. Philippe Renaldo: Mia's royal father, who is the prince of Genovia. He had Mia out of wedlock, and is constantly annoyed by his domineering mother, has many girlfriends, and tells Mia that she is a princess after he is no longer able to have children because he had cancer. Tina Hakim-Baba: A girl whom Mia befriends throughout the novel.

Their relationship went from professional to personal and the two were married in 1965 when she was almost 41 and he was 28. Because of her age, she was not able to have children and they ended up adopting three daughters. The couple separated in the 1980s, but never divorced. For 20 years until his death, Weintraub had been living with his girlfriend and longtime companion, Susan Ekins.

Felice and Gian Giordano had 5 children, 4 of whom survived into adulthood. Like most noble women of the 16th century, Felice employed wetnurses and was therefore able to have children in rapid succession. Felice gave birth to 2 daughters: Julia in 1507, and Clarice in 1514. She also had 3 sons: Giulio in 1508, who died a few months later, Francesco in 1512, and Girolamo in 1513.

That's when Chandu gets pregnant. When her good friend, a doctor, mentions to Krishna that she won't be able to have children and that Dr. Chakravarthy had mentioned this fact to her after Chandu's brain cancer operation. Everyone was happy at that time, no one got this topic. Chandu, was already holding grudges against Krishna Prasad, as she felt that her father had left her and was only with Bhargavi.

Nick sings about how it seems unfair that everyone except him is able to have children, but then joins in singing with the others in hopeful spirits about the excitement of expecting a child. Alan and Arlene further discuss the idea of having the baby. Arlene openly expresses her doubts to Alan and he seems shocked and upset. However, they drop the matter quickly and go to bed.

However, being a childless widow and no longer expected to be able to have children, Dorothea was no longer considered politically useful. The Danish loyalists, headed by the exiled Peder Oxe, therefore asked Christina to persuade Dorothea to surrender her claims to Christina and her son. Christina made Oxe a part of the Ducal council, and in 1561, she visited Dorothea, and reportedly followed his advice and convinced Dorothea to surrender her claim.

Her husband would remain unmarried for the rest of his life. Nobre, Eduardo, "Família Real - Álbum de Fotos", Quimera Editores, 2002, pág. 61 In Portugal, her second brother, Luís I, soon succeeded her eldest brother, Peter V, as king. Her husband's elder brother Albert succeeded her father-in-law as King of Saxony and gradually it became clear that he and his wife, Carola of Vasa, were not able to have children of their own.

Human males have developed an adaptation in which they find women more attractive if they show cues of fertility, such as a good waist–hip ratio. Women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 are considered more attractive to males than those with a ratio of 0.8, who are considered to have a more masculine figure. This is because they are perceived to be able to have children more and to be more fertile and healthy.

Heartbroken, Karen pleaded for another chance but Steve refused so Karen left Weatherfield on Boxing Day 2004. On Valentine's Day 2005, Steve learned that Karen had filed for divorce. One year later, Steve and Karen divorced in January 2006. In April 2010, Karen is referred to when Steve's new wife Becky McDonald (Katherine Kelly) suffers her second miscarriage within a few weeks of her first and is subsequently told it is unlikely she will be able to have children.

While there Cecilia assumes they are happy, but is shocked when she discovers a condom despite the fact that the couple are trying to conceive. Lars openly admits to having an affair and Cecilia decides to forgive him. By 1899 Lars has become so successful the Vogts decide to move back to Sweden. By this time Cecilia has grown accustomed to Lars's many affairs, but she holds out hope that they will be able to have children.

His interest in Libby Kennedy is apparent to several people before Drew realises it, and it was some time before he make a move on Libby. Their relationship ends after Libby is critically injured in a motorcycle accident, believing she would never be able to have children. They get back together and ultimately have son Ben, although both mother and baby came close to death. While Drew and Libby are in Oakey, Drew falls from his horse.

Vulović's parents both died within a few years of her fall. In 1977, she married mechanical engineer Nikola Breka after a year of dating. Although she was advised by physicians that her injuries would not have an adverse effect on her reproductive function, Vulović experienced an ectopic pregnancy that nearly proved fatal and was never able to have children. In 1985, The Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as the world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: .

Sheri is also a part of the story from the very beginning. Her life is hugely affected by her rape in the beginning of the novel. When she became pregnant after the rape she aborted her baby with a clothes hanger, making herself barren in the process. To a Nigerian woman being barren is the worst thing that a woman could be and being able to have children is the major value of a woman which Sheri has now lost.

Once upon a time in the 12th century, a knight named Don Ero lived with his wife in his palace in Armenteira, a beautiful natural setting located in the slopes of Mount Castrove, in the Province of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain). Don Ero and his wife were not able to have children, so they kept asking God to send them some descendants. God answered their prayers with the revelation that they would only have spiritual descent. For this reason they decided to found their own monasteries.

Robert W. Fogel, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) (2004) p 40 In the Victorian era, fertility rates increased in every decade until 1901, when the rates started evening out.Simon Szreter, Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). There were several reasons for this. One is biological: with improving living standards, a higher proportion of women were biologically able to have children.

71 Sutcliffe, by some reports, used prostitutes as a young man, and it has been speculated that he had a bad experience, during which he was conned out of money. Other analyses of his actions have not found evidence that he actually sought their services, although he clearly expressed unusual behaviour before the killings. Sutcliffe met Sonia Szurma on 14 February 1967; they married on 10 August 1974. She suffered several miscarriages and they were informed that she would not be able to have children.

May outside 10 Downing Street on 9 June 2017, with her husband May has been married to Philip May, an investment relationship manager currently employed by Capital International, since 6 September 1980. It is widely believed that former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto introduced the two during their time at Oxford. May has expressed regret that she and her husband have not been able to have children. The Mays are passionate walkers, and they regularly spend their holidays hiking in the Swiss Alps.

Discovering she is pregnant by Biff, Kelly tells Chris Tate (Peter Amory) that he is the father, hoping he would pay for an abortion. Due to the side-effects of his disability, he is scared about the possibility of not being able to have children and asks Kelly to keep the baby. Kelly secretly plans an abortion but miscarries after a fight with Kim Tate (Claire King) leads her to fall down a flight of stairs. She threatens to press charges but eventually accepts £1,000 from Steve Marchant (Paul Opacic) as compensation.

Lyons first fell pregnant a few months after her marriage, but miscarried just after her 18th birthday. She suffered a second miscarriage the following year, and in her memoirs recounted having to watch on as a nurse threw the remains of the foetus into a bedside fireplace. She was told by doctors that she would never be able to have children,Henderson (2011), p. 105. but in fact went on to give birth to twelve – the first born when she was 19 and the last born when she was 36.

In the emotional upheaval that follows, Fritz proposes marriage. The following episode reveals that she actually suffers from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, so she undergoes more tests to ensure that it is not cancer. Finally, she is told that her condition is reversible by means of ovarian drilling and that she will be able to have children, much to the excitement of her parents, her mother in particular. Brenda is also attacked with a cattle prod in the third season and held captive, escaping after she shoots the suspect.

Not trusting the Glass House nor their shady business practices, Carol Jo declines their offers electing to continue operating on his own and encourages the other drivers to do likewise. That night, CJ and Jerri are viciously attacked by a masked thug during their sleep and their house is set on fire. CJ wakes up and gets both of them out of the house before it partially burns down. Later on at the hospital, the doctor informs him that Jerri has lost the baby she was carrying and will never be able to have children.

She reveals that her real name is "Sarah". Michael, in tears himself, receives her with kind, pure and forgiving love, and declares that he believes the revelation of her name is a promise from God that they will one day be able to have children (the Sarah in the Bible was a barren woman who, by the grace of God, was eventually able to have a son). At last they start a new life together, the life they have dreamed of. In the epilogue, it is said that Michael and Sarah later had four children.

Central to the case was whether Lady Jane was still able to have children and at the trials, intimate evidence of her menstrual status was presented by servants. However, witnesses were produced by the Hamiltons who claimed to have noticed nothing about Lady Jane's appearance to indicate that she was pregnant. Hamilton lawyers also found two French couples who both said they had sold babies to a mysterious foreign couple about the time the 'twins' were born. Douglas lawyers countered by providing evidence of a male midwife said to have delivered Lady Jane’s babies.

"According to the new UNICEF report, almost 2 billion babies will be born in Africa between 2015 and 2050 and the 2 main driving forces behind this surge in births and children are continued high fertility rates and rising numbers of women able to have children of their own." The HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa has contributed locally to a population boom. Aid money used for contraceptives has been diverted over the past two decades into fighting HIV, which lead the number of babies born far outstripping the deaths from AIDS.

The following year, Aldrete interviewed with the press again and stated that she had been tortured to confess. She said she had been stripped naked, blindfolded, beaten upside down, and then had her toenails yanked. Aldrete claimed she was beaten so severely that doctors told her she would never be able to have children. In the early 2000s, she published an autobiography where she detailed how she met Constanzo and the group, her experiences when she was allegedly taken hostage by Constanzo, her mistreatment by authorities, and her versions of the story.

Cannie wakes up in the hospital confused, until her friends tell her that she'll be fine, but will never be able to have children again, due to her injury requiring her to have a hysterectomy. Her new daughter, Joy, was born prematurely but will be okay as long as she stays in the hospital for a few more weeks. Cannie soon falls into a deep depression after the incident and slowly pushes her friends and family away. She starts taking long walks through the city and starts eating very little, causing her to lose weight.

George then announces he has received a telegram with bad news—their son has been killed in a car accident. As Martha begs George not to "kill" their son, Nick suddenly realizes the truth: Martha and George had never been able to have children, and filled the void with an imaginary son. By declaring their son dead, accordingly, George has "killed" him. George explains that their one mutually-agreed-upon rule was to never mention the "existence" of their son to anyone else, and that he "killed" him because Martha broke that rule by mentioning him to Honey.

Nothing is known of Manuel's early life. From the fact that he was militarily active in 978, and given that he was able to have children as late as , a date of birth of has been suggested and generally accepted by modern scholars. His parents' identity is obscure: as Manuel's own firstborn son was named Isaac (Isaakios), the Greek scholar Konstantinos Varzos considered it likely that his father had the same name, since according to Greek custom the eldest male child is named after its paternal grandfather. Nothing is known otherwise about his life and career.

Shortly after Mikage's birth, she was abducted by Zeus and Apollo and since her body would grow into one that could not bear children, she was transferred into the body of an automaton that would evolve into a human able to have children. She was left in the care of the Hiba family by Ryuuji's father shortly before he died ten years before the start of the series. :For some reason, Mikage's evolution stopped five years prior the start of the series. Ryuuji suspected the cause was that Mikage only had half of the 3rd-Gear Concept Core, which is why he wanted to take the other half from Typhon.

When she was given her own court, her chief lady in waiting was Francesca Paleologa of Montferrat, spouse of Constantine Comnenus, titular Prince of Macedonia, who was to become one of her most intimate lifelong friends. Francesco II Sforza was at that time very weak, as his health had never recovered after he survived a poison attempt years before, and there was concern that he would never be able to have children, and die without heirs. According to the marriage settlement, the Duchy of Milan was to become a part of the Empire if it did not result in issue. She and Francesco had no children.

In 1993, Mansfield testified on behalf of Colorado's Amendment 2, which amended the state constitution to prevent gays, lesbians and bisexuals from pursuing legal claims of discrimination. In his testimony, he argued that being gay "is not a life that makes for happiness," that homosexuality is "shameful," and that by not being able to have children gay people were not "socially responsible." Nussbaum, who testified in the same trial against Amendment 2, later remarked that Mansfield's source for his claim that gay and lesbian people were unhappy was not contemporary social science research but the great books of the Western tradition (Plato, Tocqueville, Rousseau, etc.).

Later she had several briefer, less intense affairs, in which the men were in love with her and she did her best to reciprocate. As she emphasized in describing these, she was careful to use contraceptives with her lovers and let her children be fathered by her husband alone – although she dreamed of a future in which her daughters would be able to "have children by several chosen fathers, uncensured". Naomi and Dick had seven children. Their four sons were Geoffrey (1918–1927), who died of meningitis, Denis (1919–2018), a professor of bacteriology, Murdoch (1922–2011), and Avrion (born 1928), both professors of zoology.

Hanna and Simon are in a long-term relationship which, though loving, has grown sexually unexciting. Soon after Simon's mother dies from overdosing on pills, after being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, he discovers that he has testicular cancer and must undergo surgery and chemotherapy. The night of his surgery, Hanna has a sexual encounter with a man called Adam, and Simon learns that he had fathered a child seventeen years earlier, although the woman opted for an abortion. Simon, who had assumed that either he or Hanna was infertile, is assured that he should still be able to have children after his surgery.

In 2000, a consultant who had worked at the hospital between 1985 and 1998, was struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) for botching 12 operations on women whilst he was working at the hospital. Some of the women were left in "agonising pain" and, in some cases, the women were not able to have children afterwards. The Friarage had decided to bring medical malpractice charges against the consultant, but his lawyer had advised the hospital that the legal action could take years. The hospital paid the consultant off and gave him a good appraisal which allowed him to carry on working at another hospital in England before charges were brought by the GMC.

Victoria Woodhull, 1860 Victoria Woodhull was a prominent advocate of eugenics. Woodhull also had a husband that was abusive, alcoholic, and disloyal, which she thought that might have contributed to the mental disability of her son, Byron. With her newly sparked interest in eugenics, Woodhull promoted her views by giving addresses and publishing various books. A significant address was made on September 1871 and was titled Children: Their Rights and Privileges in which she claimed that “a perfect humanity must come of perfect children.” Moreover, she mentioned the importance of having “the best seed” to be able to have children that can grow into functional adults, the nurturing of parents to children, and the wickedness of abortion.

Aside from the break necessitated by five years of a land ownership dispute brought on by Herbert Hoover's early efforts to create Death Valley National Monument, the Johnsons vacationed in their Death Valley "castle" regularly until 1943, when Bessie was killed in an automobile accident at Towne Pass while she and Albert were driving through Death Valley. Due to Albert Johnson's poor health following severe injury in a train accident in 1899, Bessie and Albert were never able to have children. After Bessie's death, Albert stopped visiting Scotty's Castle altogether. Because of a lack of heirs, when Albert died of cancer in 1948 he left their Death Valley properties to the Gospel Foundation, a charitable organization that he had created in 1946 for that very purpose.

May and his future wife, then Theresa Brasier, met as undergraduates at Oxford, being introduced by Benazir Bhutto at a Conservative Party student event. They further bonded over a shared love of cricket, and were married on 6 September 1980 by Theresa's father, the Rev Hubert Brasier. As the spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, May avoided giving interviews or making public statements but did accompany his wife for a joint interview on the BBC One programme The One Show prior to the 2017 general election. During this interview, Theresa May admitted her sadness, for health reasons, she and Philip have not been able to have children, saying: "You look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have".

Leadsom's comments in an interview with The Times were interpreted as hinting that her being a mother meant that she was a better choice for Prime Minister than May, who has not been able to have children for health reasons, because it meant that she had "a very real stake" in the future. She said that she "did not want this to be 'Andrea has children, Theresa hasn't' because I think that would be really horrible". After The Times published the story, with the headline "Being a mother gives me an edge on May", Leadsom said that she was "disgusted" by the article, which was the "exact opposite of what I said". The Times later released a partial transcript of the comments, and when Leadsom supporter Penny Mordaunt said that it was trying to "smear" Leadsom, The Times released an audio recording.

When he goes back to look at this photo for insurance purposes he notices that his son is in the back of the car, being driven away by a stranger. Ben then contacts his estranged husband (Ben), supposedly the biological father of Gabriel, however, it is learned that he is not the father, and adopted him when he was in his previous marriage; his then wife Kate was not able to have children, so they adopted Gabriel. When Kate died Ben meets Nick and they marry, however, Ben never reveals that Gabriel is adopted and lets Nick believe that Gabriel is his son. With Gabriel missing Nick becomes more and more worried and does not understand why Ben is not as worried as he is, along with Nicks annoyance towards Ben, he is also increasingly angry with the police and their lack of effort toward finding Gabriel.

Steward and Dovey Morgan have not been able to have children and Deek and Soane's sons die at war, leaving no Morgan heir to Ruby's leadership besides K.D. Smith, an often insolent young man who angers his uncles by spending time chasing after Gigi, one of the Convent women. The Reverend Richard Misner, a young upstart recently arrived in town, is deeply invested in the civil rights struggle, models himself after Martin Luther King, and believes Ruby needs to be more open to the changes afoot in the outside world; in turn, the older generations believe he is engendering radicalism and rebelliousness among the town's youth. The Oven has been taken over as a hangout spot for local youth, and one day it is graffitied with a Black Power fist with red-painted nails. The elder generations believe that the young do not understand or respect Ruby's history, encapsulated in their desire to modify the slogan that appears on the Oven: though it now says only "… the Furrow of his Brow", the town elders claim it used to say "Beware" at the beginning, whereas the younger generation wishes to make it "Be the Furrow of his Brow".