Curiosity Killed I've a few points I'd like to raise.
Firstly, your statistics: -
" The average success rate for IVF treatment using fresh eggs in the UK is
28.2% (for women under 35);
23.6% (for women aged 35-37)
18.3% (for women aged 38-39)
10.6% (for women aged 40-42)
The average success rate for Donor Insemination treatment in the UK is
14.1% (for women under 35);
8.3% (for women aged 35-39)
4.9% (for women aged 40-42) "
They're just statistics you know, dear. Rather like reproductive biology and natural conception, they vary from individual to individual. I did IVF under the age of 35 (33 to be precise) and my statistics were much higher. Around 70% according to my clinic, as my egg quality was good and I was, to quote my fertility doctor, "pelvically perfect". Our misfortune was that my husband has complex male factor issues, possibly related to a cycling accident in his early thirties (a bicycle between the legs when he wrapped himself around a bus cycling home from work one evening). But I digresss. You spout the statistics as if they're written on holy stone, but they're just statistics. I know plenty of women at 38 plus (some 41, 42) who've conceived their children the first or second month of trying, far quicker than me with my perfect pelvis and great egg quality. They're not the norm, but don't lump everyone under the same dismal banner simply to justify your ill informed comments. And next time, when you go trigger-happy with your 'cut and paste' on googled fertility stats, try reading some of the information behind it too. You might learn something.
Secondly, your comments about infertile couples adopting is SO crass and ill thought out. No one ever lectures the fertile about adopting before they ditch the contraceptive and go at it over a Chinese takeaway and a bottle of wine. Seemingly, the fertile are entitled to concieve as and when they wish - presumably their prize for being biologically superior - and the sub fertile can deal with the adoption crisis can't they? All very tidy and neat.
You make it sound as if there's a giant supermarket where the reproductively inadequate can just pitch up and pick a child. Have you ANY idea of what is involved in the adoption process? Have you really any clue as to the hoops you have to jump through to be approved for adoption? And that's if you get approved - it's not a guaranteed just because you want it. Age, location, a myriad of other reasons all factor in the final decision.
Curiosity you give it a few years and then make your smug little call to the adoption agency. Tell them you'll take on everyone, 'anything', as you say. After all, it's easy. Or even better, wait thirty years until your daughter can't have children (or has married someone who can't have children) and make sure you sit her down somewhere comfortable and lecture her about how she shouldn't have left it so late and that she should just accept her lot and start adopting.
You're so naive I can only hope this is a spectacular joke or wind up. If it isn't, and you really believe the ill-informed, thoughtless and smug trip that you've trotted out then I can only shake my head wearily and conclude that time and life will teach you. Some of us have to live a few more lifetimes to really understand empathy. You've got some way to go yet.
Do a bit of reading and don't just cherry pick some stats to make you feel better about your smug little life. The HFEA website is a good place to start. www.hfea.gov.uk. At the moment you're just commenting on issues about which you know nothing - either emotionally/personally or intellectually - which is why you're coming out with such embarrassingly ill-informed rubbish. At least if you get some facts under your belt you can add some sense to what is understandably for many unfortunate people a very sensitive issue.