4 guys from 3 continents talking about mens experience of being childless, how we grieve, how we cope and our thoughts about legacy.

I never got to meet you

To show you how to be

I never got to look at you

To see how much was me

What’s going on within my body

is so wrong, I’m built so shoddily.

In this film the voices of men are heard talking openly and honestly about their perspectives on various aspects of IVF, adoption and childlessness.

The Clan of Brothers is a group to give childless not by choice (CNBC) males a safe place to find support and encouragement from their brothers around the globe.

A little while back I was looking at an old picture my mother took of me and my best friend at the time Michael. We were about seven years old sitting on the front porch of my house. Very happy and smiling.

Can't believe the progress that has happened in the past month.

I retained all of my father’s lessons.

They are packed in the back of

my mind, next to an old smoking habit

and memories of a former flame

who flickers with each passing day.

I first heard this poem when I was aged around 37 yrs old and at the stage of realising my ‘Happy Ending’ really wasn’t going to happen.

The separation from others around me, the loneliness.

Alone, I sit on a park bench,

no stars tonight, out of sight

under these dark clouds that haunt (me) us so.

It is this reason I am writing as I am a Male with 100% infertility. That's to say I cannot father a child bearing my wife and I childless. I was diagnosed with Azoospermia with Normal chromosomes, no abnormalities found.

I heard him say I look mired

in my grief, I’m just tired.

It’s exhausting telling people

the line ends with me.