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Shannon Tan (centre) with her mother Winnie Cheong (left) and father Desmond Tan at the 2018 Tasmania Women’s Amateur Championship.
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Over the past few weeks – and not for the first time in recent months – the topics of mental health and fertility rates appeared in close quarters in the news cycle.
In and of themselves, the stories were not linked – but deducing as much would be missing the point. By now, one can say with a certain level of unambiguity: There is a correlation between the two.

