Being childless should not make May a pity figure
ASKED about not having children, theresa May said: ‘it’s been very sad – it just turned out not to be possible for us. We’re not the only couple who find themselves in that situation. When you do, i suppose you just get on with life. We have nephews and nieces.’
it’s sad that May was denied her dream to have a family but it’s even sadder still that in this day and age one of the few women to reach the apex of british politics is turned into a figure of pity because of her private disappointment.
May is not a tragic freak in this respect but part of a rising trend in childlessness, intentional and otherwise, among modern couples. surely that’s an issue worth exploring far more than the Mays’ infertility.