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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Childfree"”.
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Childfree employees: The effects of flexible work arrangements and childfree-friendly culture on organisational commitment
… mothers and, later, also for working fathers. Childfree employees (i.e., those with no children) were not included. There is little research on the impact of these work arrangements on the organisational commitment of these childfree employees. This dissertation tries to close that gap. …
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Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity
… of the voluntarily childless (hereafter “childfree”) movement in the United States. How do these individuals practice their identity, and how does the identity of “childfree” interact with other roles in their lives? How do they build meaning in a society that emphasizes children as a …
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Exploring the reasons white middle-class women remain childfree in the South African context : a feminist social constructionist study
… I consider the reasons for women to remain childfree and the changing discourses of femininity that enable women to make the choice not to have children. I am also concerned with the possible implications of this choice for women’s interpersonal relationships. This study is conducted from a …
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Navigating Emotional Transitions: A Study of Self-Perception and Emotion in Bio-Childfree Women Entering a Blended Family
… emotional and psychological adjustment for bio-childfree individuals. The present qualitative study investigated how self-concept and emotional adjustment of bio-childfree stepmothers change when they become members of their new family. With a phenomenological approach, semi-structured …
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Childlessness in a child-centered environment : the experiences of voluntarily childless female teachers /
… time, the experience ofwomen with regard to the childfree choice has not been adequately addressed in contemporary feminist literature. In the field of education, much has been written about the association between mothering and teaching. Thus, childfree teachers become particularly interesting …
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Wybrane uwarunkowania uprzedzeń wobec osób dobrowolnie bezdzietnych oraz możliwości ich redukcji
… Wyboru (QPCF – Questionaire of Prejudice towards Childfree People), składający się z 14 itemów. Proces konstrukcji i walidacji narzędzia opisuje publikacja 3, natomiast publikacja 4 zaadresowała temat predyktorów uprzedzeń wobec ODB. Przeprowadzone badanie wykazało, że cechy takie jak kolektywny …
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One Lonely Line
… surrogacy, adoption, and the decision to live childfree. A wide spectrum of grief is presented-emotions range from despair and jealousy to anger and disbelief. While the characters and circumstances differ, the pain and alienation of the condition are present in each piece, providing a sort of …
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The Effects of Early Adversity on Women’s Fertility Intentions: An Intuitive Inquiry
… I analyzed interview transcripts of young, childfree women, with histories of early adversity: by consulting these transcripts, I suggest that fear and anxiety may be significant factors which should be considered when understanding the fertility intentions of women who have experienced …
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Posthumanist Children: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings
… but also to reformulate the largely childfree theories put forward by posthumanist and new materialist scholars. This thesis ultimately argues that adult theories—posthumanism, new materialism, and aetonormativity—have as much to gain from posthumanist children and their literature …