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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"parenthood"”.
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Making Sense of Parenthood
… that may impact on the meanings parents give to parenthood is rare. In response to this lack of knowledge, this study explores parents’ experiences of counselling at SureStart children’s centres and how that experience affects their perceptions of themselves as parents, and their on-going …
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Family planning as responsible parenthood
… of a shared parenting task and responsible parenthood from both parents. Responsible parenthood entails the acceptance of responsibility for the adequate upbringing of the child. Parents should have no uncertainties as to their responsibilities as parents. They should be fully aware of their …
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Male attitudes toward the timing of parenthood
… preference and attitude toward timing of parenthood. The sample consisted of 103 males in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was a heterogeneous sampling which included males at all social levels ranging in age from 18 to 71 years. Previous research had shown little conclusive data in this area. …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… thesis explores how ideological constructions of parenthood shape and are shaped by changing forms of conceptualising and representing the gendered body. In so doing, it underscores the need to interrogate modern assumptions about sex to recognise the variable signification and significance of the …
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Parenthood concepts of adults reared without parents
The present study investigated the parental attitudes expressed by adults who were reared in an institutional setting and adults who were reared in a nuclear family setting. The Parental Attitude Research Instrument, developed by Schaefer and Bell (1958), was used to elicit parental attitudes of …
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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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Transitions to parenthood; care-experienced young fathers’ perspectives.
Aim: This study aimed to explore how care-experienced young fathers experience the transition to fatherhood through their firsthand accounts, supplemented by the perspectives of professionals who have worked with them. Four fathers and sixteen professionals took part in this qualitative study. All …
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save human …
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Emotion and Identity in the Transition to Parenthood
… the start of their new family. The transition to parenthood that expectant parents experience has important implications for their future health and the health of their children. This dissertation investigates the experiences of new and expectant parents as they develop their new roles. The …
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Factors affecting paternal adjustment during the transition to parenthood
… a difficult adjustment during the transition to parenthood. The purpose of this study was to test a model for the prediction and identification of paternal risk factors. Forty seven couples expecting their first child were the subjects. Questionnaires which assessed paternal expectations …
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One parent families : some social implications of lone-parenthood
… which factors arising out of the state of lone-parenthood, or associated with it, affect their roles as parents, their children, and themselves as persons. From the research of lone-parenthood, the writer will draw attention to some of the social implications, make some recommendations for …
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Displacing Mother, Fashioning Father: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Politics of Parenthood
… affects and reflects early modern conceptions of parenthood, with special emphasis on the presentation of Queen Elizabeth I as a figurative and political mother.
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Transitioning into parenthood : family leisure and heterosexual couples in New Zealand
… from first time pregnancy through to first time parenthood for heterosexual couples in Christchurch, New Zealand. The particular focus on this study was on how this transition impacted upon access, opportunity and experiences of family leisure. As a result this study can claim to be longitudinal …
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Communication Processes of Dual-Career Couples in the Transition to Parenthood
… influences role development and expectations for parenthood and to explore the role of communication in dual-career couples' transition to parenthood. Eight dual-career couples from a medium-sized Midwestern city were interviewed individually and asked to complete diary entries for two weeks. …
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Anglos' and Latinos' Self-Regulation to Standards for Education and Parenthood
… educational achievement and greater incidence of parenthood among Latino relative to Anglo high school students arise from differences across ethnic groups in the standards held for these behaviors and whether these different standards and differential success across groups at meeting them …
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Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit: A Study in Real and Illusonary Parenthood
<p>In Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit (1855-1857) the theme of reality and illusion is introduced early in the novel. Dickens writes, "We all know how we | all deceive ourselves—that is to say, how people in general, our profounder J selves excepted, deceive themselves—as to motives of action." …
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The Experience of Parenthood, Family Phase, and Ego Development in Adults
… self reported ideas on the contribution of parenthood to their own development as adults. It was hypothesized that the nature and frequency of ideas expressed by parents in response to questions on their parenthood experience would be influenced by the phase of the family, sex of parent, and …
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