| A | B |
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| indirect costs | resources used to meet child-related costs that could have been used to meet other goals. |
| foregone income | Potential income given up by a parent who leaves the workforce and stays home to raise a child. |
| maternity leave | a woman who takes time off after having or adopting a child. |
| paternity leave | When a father takes time off work after a child's birth or adoption. |
| Family and Medical Leave Act | protects the rights of many women and men to take unpaid leave. |
| family planning | happens when a couple decides how many childre they want and when to have them. |
| birth control methods | used to help couples delay having children |
| infertile | couples who do not conceive after one year of trying |
| sterile | an inability to conceive children. |
| fertility counseling | For those couples who are having difficulty having children this type of counseling is advised. |
| artificial insemination | occurs when the sperm is introduce into the vagina or uterus by a medical procedure |
| in vetro fertilization | occurs when some of the mother's eggs are surgically removed and fertilized with sperm in a lab. |
| gamete intrafallopian transfer | occurs when a mixture of sperm and eggs is placed in a woman's fallopian tubes. |
| surrogate mother | A woman who willingly bears a child for another couple. |
