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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Childless"”.
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Never married childless women
… and relational experiences of never-married childless working women in mid-life, who regarded themselves as satisfied. Seven never-married women between the ages of 39 and 60 participated in this study. During individual, in-depth personal interviews which were audio-taped, the women …
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The Meaning of Marriage to the Voluntarily Childless Couple
… literature is replete with findings to show that childlessness is a contemporary and growing trend. However, no known study has been done to explore what marriage means to the couple who chooses childlessness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of marriage to the …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… Williams, Edward Albee—and their dramatic use of childless women characters in Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) respectively. Although the plays of Inge, Williams, and Albee have been analyzed individually by numerous …
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Childlessness in a child-centered environment : the experiences of voluntarily childless female teachers /
In the literature on voluntary childlessness there is a lack of research on the types of occupations held by women who choose not to mother and how their fertility choice influences their occupational experiences. At the same time, the experience ofwomen with regard to the childfree choice has not …
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Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity
… the identity and practice 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 …
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A phenomenological study of the experiences of voluntarily childless married couples: a lifetime decision
… was to describe the experiences of voluntarily childless married couples. This study explored the experiences of five voluntarily childless married couples within the framework of Elder’s (1998) life course perspective. The researcher conducted interviews using semi-structured questions and …
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Examining Differences in Issues of Spirituality Between Couples with Children and Voluntarily Childless Couples
… and 1980s the decision to remain voluntarily childless by choice was also seen as an alternative family structure and was researched. Unfortunately, this population is rarely examined today though projections indicate that due to a variety of factors they will probably continue to increase in …
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Sexuality and considering motherhood after an HIV diagnosis : an IPA exploration of the experiences of European, childless women
… This qualitative study explores how European, childless women who have been historically underrepresented in the literature experience sexuality, and feelings of motherhood following an HIV-diagnosis. Interpretative phenomenological analysis of five women’s experiences produced superordinate …
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An exploratary study of involuntarily childless women's experience from potential parenthood to the acceptance of their non-parenthood status
We live in a society that continually reinforces the connection between femininity and maternity and for the majority of women, attempts to experience motherhood are successful. However, for others the world of motherhood is not so easy to enter. To date, research regarding the needs and life …
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An Investigation of the Relationships between Gay Identity, Perceived Social Support, Gender-Role Conflict, and Parenting Intention in Childless Gay Men
… gender-role conflict on parenting intention in childless gay men. It was hypothesized that there would be a difference in gay men’s stated intention to parent depending on their stage of gay identity development when associated with perceived social support and gender-role conflict. A sample …
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Naomi on the crossroads of Umlazi.
… study of the cultural situation of the childless widow in Ancient Israel visa- vis that of the childless widow in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal in the late 1990s.
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
… of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents an alternative figuration of the childless woman. The exegesis, the …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… of the paradoxical symbolic power wielded by the childless cisgender woman in the collective imaginary) and bound by narratives which produce them as lacking, deviant or unnatural women, commensurate with a failed and futile existence. Condemned to endure clichéd representations, non-mothers are …
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An exploration of how childlessness and the decision whether to parent is understood by psychoanalytic practitioners.
Voluntary childlessness (VC) is a growing phenomenon in the 21st Century in western societies with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in 2013 showing that one-fifth of women are childless at the age of 45. Sociological literature highlights how VC is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon and is …
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High-density parenting : design, policy, and family-oriented urbanism
… renaissance and portrays new urbanites as the childless. Luxury buildings full of studio and one-bedroom units appear downtown, targeting young professionals and empty nesters. Missing from this discussion are middle-class parents choosing the city. Vancouver, BC stands as a critical case. In …
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Studies on genetic aberrations as possible predictors of the outcome of assisted reproduction
… of fertility. In about half of the involuntarily childless couples the causes are solely or partly male related. In 60-75% of cases the aetiology of reduced semen quality remains unexplained and is referred to as being idiopathic. In recent years fragmentation of sperm DNA and/or genetic …
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Captatio in law, life and literature : a study of the topos of inheritance-hunting in the context of Roman testamentary legislation and social practice
… of elderly, preferably sickly or dying, childless wealthy people by social adventurers known as captatores, with the aim of gaining inheritances from these people by will. The methods by which this is shown to be achieved include gift-giving, salutatio, sexual favours, flattery etc. Roman …
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Peer Perceptions of Parent-Students Seeking Higher Education
… academic majors as compared to their same-age, childless counterparts. The findings of this study, both statistically significant and non-significant, contribute to the expansion of the limited knowledge base of perceptions of parent-students.</p>
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Peer Perceptions of Parent-Students Seeking Higher Education
… academic majors as compared to their same-age, childless counterparts. The findings of this study, both statistically significant and non-significant, contribute to the expansion of the limited knowledge base of perceptions of parent-students.</p>
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"A poor woman wants permit to go to Almshouse": Women, gender and poverty in New York's Burned-Over District, 1821-1861
… for much of the period while single mothers and childless single women appeared as "unworthy." By the end of the antebellum era, only downwardly mobile, formerly middle-class, white, Protestant women appeared in the discourse as poor women who were entitled to public dependence.
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