Must marriage counselors be married? Do psychologists and psychiatrists have to experience mental illness to qualify? How about male OBs??????? (or childless female ones?) In all of the above situations, I think personal experience can broaden the perspective of the indivudual, but why should our profession require personal experience when others clearly do not? Very interested to hear how others feel....... Karen Zeretzke MEd, IBCLC Baton Rouge, Louisiana [log in to unmask]