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4 Guys From 3 Continents

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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

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In Men Matter Too Tags men supporting men, speaking out to create change
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Not To Be

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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

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In Men Matter Too Tags I'll never know, so many unanswered questions, childless poetry
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The First Conversation

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

What’s going on within my body

is so wrong, I’m built so shoddily.

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In Men Matter Too Tags a conversation in time, listening to each other's wish, childless poetry
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Men Without Children

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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

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In Men Matter Too Tags the voices of childless men, open and honest emotions
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Every Time

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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.

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In Men Matter Too Tags everyone I knew has children, his words triggered my emotions
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“You’re Not a Real Man”: The Missed Fortune of Being a Dad

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

The stinging pang of hunger drained the few joules of energy from Beke’s exhausted body. With his feet swollen and succumbing to the great desert heat, he dragged himself towards home.

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In Men Matter Too Tags childless men, childless ministry, childless poetry, I am a real man

Progress

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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

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In Men Matter Too Tags never be afraid to ask for help, honest advice, confident to speak openly
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The teacher

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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.

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In Men Matter Too Tags life lessons, childless poetry, male poet, father to son
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Picnic On The Lawn

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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.

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In Men Matter Too Tags Vernon Scannell, male poetry, words that cause emotions, hidden dreams
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A dance of agony in masks

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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.

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In Men Matter Too Tags from the outside looking in, hear our words, childless poetry, male poetry, The Clan Of Brothers
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100% Infertility

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

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.

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In Men Matter Too Tags azoospermia, lost my manhood, shunned by family
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Passing voices

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I heard him say I look mired

in my grief, I’m just tired.

It’s exhausting telling people

the line ends with me.

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In Men Matter Too Tags male childless voice, childless poetry, trying to survive, uninvited conversations
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