Full Description
Around the globe, the very conceptualization of family is associated with the relationship between a parent and a child. The birth of a child represents both the end of one experience, and the beginning of another. Entry into parenthood represents a fundamental shift in family structure and family dynamics, wherein the child brings new responsibilities within the family and upon the larger society, particularly in regards to population issues.
In order to better understand the transitions into parenthood, this multidisciplinary volume of CPFR will address such topics as: employment and fertility, childbearing desires versus childbearing outcomes, the social media construction of parenthood, gender differences in childrearing, parental discipline and child outcomes, among others. This volume will contain research on parenthood and parenting from around the world, and is intended to provide a more global perspective of these issues. Given that these topics range across various disciplines, a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches are utilized in the research herein.
Contents
Chapter 1. Putting Gender on Ice: Preserving Motherhood in Media Coverage of Elective Egg and Sperm Freezing; Ashlyn M. Jaeger
Chapter 2. Becoming Mum: Exploring the Emergence and Formulation of a Mothers' Identity during the Transition into Motherhood; Samantha Reveley
Chapter 3. Contextual Influences on Contraception Use among Poor Women in Pakistan; Hassan Raza
Brad van Eeden-Moorefield
Soyoung Lee
Lisa Lieberman
Chapter 4. Doing Becoming a Mother: The Gendering of Parenthood in Birth-Preparation Classes in Germany; Marion Müller
Nicole Zillien
Julia Gerstewitz
Chapter 5. Midwives in Ontario Hospitals: the Mainstreaming of "Alternative" Childbearing; Melodie Cardin
Chapter 6. The Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Contemporary Turkey: The Effect of Risk Discourses for Turkish Women's Experiences; Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu
Chapter 7. Going It Alone: A Multigenerational Investigation of Women's Perceptions of Single Mothers by Choice Versus Circumstance; Christina L. Scott
Siri Wilder
Justine Bennett
Chapter 8. Building a Family within a Non-Heterosexual Couple: Struggles, Fears, Representations and Practices; Filomena Santos
Rita Dias
Chapter 9. A Qualitative Inquiry: Reflections on Pregnancy, Birth, and Transition to Parenthood Experiences of African American Couples with a Toddler Son; Sheresa Boone Blanchard
Tacy Rae LeBaron
