Today, happy chaps will be spotted in pub gardens up and down the country sporting “Best dad in the world” T-shirts and lapping up the attention of their adoring kids. But for many couples who want children but can’t have them, looking at these happy family scenes, Father’s Day will hold a painful note. Much has been written about the deep sense of anxiety and grief felt by many childless women, but what of the men who find themselves in these circumstances?
“The biggest myth about male childlessness is that men are not bothered about not being fathers,” says Dr Robin Hadley, an academic who has gathered information on hundreds of childless men for his research. “It is often purported that women are broody and
