Growing appetite for the snip

SOME are fathers who say their families are complete. Others are young men in their 20s and 30s who have decided that they never want children. They are among men seeking vasectomies in the Corporate Area, where some urologists say interest and requests are rising in their private practices.

The slight but notable increase suggests that more men are embracing an active role in contraception, say urologists, who point to varied motivations behind their patients’ decisions.

Consultant Urologist Dr Belinda Morrison-Blidgen, co-owner of the newly opened Urology and Cardiothoracic Centre in St Andrew, told the Jamaica Observer that while she has not observed a similar trend in the public health system, requests for the procedure have increased at her private practice.