According to Whitehead (2016), motherhood can be defined as one of the most rites of passage to adult femininity for women. One not being able to bear children may be as a result of natural or medical factors. Some medical factors that hinder women from biologically have children include; ovulatory disorders, endometriosis, uterine defects, blockage of the cervix, blood clotting disorders and eating disorders.

To understand the concept and meaning of names, you need to take an in-depth look at them by studying them and this act is called anthroponomy. Anthroponomy is related to other disciplines such as sociology, genealogy and anthropology. Anthroponomy is a domain of onomastics, which is a study of proper names and their significant forms and uses (Algeo, 1992).

Ardayfio-Schandorf and Amissah (1996) defined adoption as the process through which a child or a person acquires the status of a “child” legally either statutorily or customarily. Globally, infertility is a reproductive disorder and a public health issue that can affect both genders and has no predilection for national, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds, and is the inability to attain a fruitful pregnancy after a minimum of 12 months of mutually deciding to have unprotected sexual intercourse with one’s partner or after a therapeutic donor insemination (Gurunath, Pandian, Anderson & Bhattacharya, 2011; Practice Committee of American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2013).

Traditional Ghanaian Customs refer to practices and behaviors which are unique to Ghanaians and the various ethnic groups within the country. They can be both positive and negative. Some of these negative practices include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), widowhood rites and many others.

Rosetta Ntriwaah Boakye, the Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Registered Midwives Ghana has called on the government to take off what she refers to as ‘luxury tax’ on sanitary pads to make them affordable for women and young girls.