Thousands of families could receive a financial boost following a Child Benefit policy change.
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A woman who has chosen to stay child-free so she doesn't pass on a rare genetic condition says trolls tell her she will never know ‘true love’ unless she has a child.
Sophie Power, 33, and her husband, Joe, 33, decided not to have children because they would have an increased risk of developing cancer.
Sophie was born with Li Fraumeni syndrome - a rare genetic condition that increases her risk of the disease. She has had cancer twice - surviving neuroblastoma aged five and breast cancer just last year.
Sophie, who works in PR, from Telford, Shropshire, said: "I’ve always joked that one of the most attractive things that my now-husband said when we first met was that he didn't want kids.
“We got told once that you can’t know true love until you've had your own child. It's absolutely mad the stuff some people come out with.
“It would be easier to tell them that I couldn’t have kids. It’s possible, I just don’t want them.
“If people are going to be really judgy about it then you probably don’t need that negativity in your life."
Sophie discovered she had Li Fraumeni syndrome after losing her younger brother, Daniel Belcher, seven, to a brain tumour in 2001.
Her mum, Michelle Belcher, 39, and nan, Jenny Pitchford were both successfully treated for breast cancer but later developed secondary cancers elsewhere.
Michelle passed away after the cancer returned and spread to her liver, ovaries, brain and lungs.
Jenny died three years later from cancer and a number of health problems.
The pattern led Sophie and her family to go for genetic testing and she was diagnosed with the rare condition.
She said: “I have a yearly MRI - so I have my full body, breast scans.
"I have brain scans and stuff every year so that’s how they keep on
Thousands of families could receive a financial boost following a Child Benefit policy change.
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