There, they were told that a “treatment” was available to help solve my dad’s infertility. They went to the now long-defunct Farris Institute for Parenthood near the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. My mother, nearing 40, was desperate to have a child. My father was part of a large family that took seriously the commandment to be fruitful and multiply.
In 1961, my parents, Orthodox Jews who married later in life, were having trouble conceiving.
