Death, Sex & Money - Opportunity Costs: Friendship and Fertility

Death, Sex & Money

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Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Best friends Cat and Christine met in college and have stayed close in the years since. But their class differences became very clear—and uncomfortable—when they both struggled to get pregnant.

This episode is part of our series Opportunity Costs: Money and Class in America. All this week we're bringing you five conversations about the moments in life when you've felt your class status the most, in collaboration with our partners at BuzzFeed News. Find out more at deathsexmoney.org/opportunitycosts.

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0:00.0	Are you a parent?
0:02.4	No.
0:03.9	And how do you feel about that?
0:07.2	Oh, I think it sucks.
0:11.4	This is Opportunity Costs from death, sex, and money.
0:15.4	I immediately thought, oh, he's a rich boy.
0:18.5	A series all about class, which we think about a lot.
0:22.4	Oh, boy, class.
0:23.9	And need to talk about more.
0:25.9	Money can't buy you class, darlings.
0:29.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:32.7	Christine is 42 and lives in Chicago with their husband.
0:36.5	They both work in the theater business.
0:38.2	She paints sets and backdrops.
0:40.0	And they make enough money to get by, but not enough to have much in reserves.
0:44.9	Christine really felt that when she was trying to get pregnant and having a hard time.
0:49.6	Even just to get to the point to figure out why it was that we were having problems was thousands
0:57.0	of dollars later.
0:58.0	And how much did access to money, how much did you think about that when you were dealing with
1:07.0	infertility?
1:09.0	All the time. All the time.
1:12.5	All the time.
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