FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Natalism, Semen Analysis
25 Aug 2016
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Fertility 3/10/2016 6:38:00 PM
• →Would you like to have a child in the next 12 months, why or
why not?
• -NO: b/c big transition into adulthood, economic difficulties, need the
right co-person to co-parent with
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• Transitions
• During your teens and early twenties: focused on contraception
• A shift commonly occurs with couples in the late 20’s and early 30’s
beginning to shift towards getting pregnant rather than preventing it
(switch from want to not wanting)
• The birth of a child represents one of the major life course events and
transitions
• Parent role= dictated by age of the child, experiences the child brings to
the parent
• The child, whether adopted or genetically related, considered a
consanguine (w/ blood) relative
→makes relationship to the parent “durable”, culturally and legally
Changes in the Couple Relationship
75% of couples:
• Decline in their feelings of love
• Experience less motivation to work on the couple relationship w/ the birth
of the 1st child
• Some couple relationships improve
Transition Points:
→actual day and time of birth
BUT the transition to being a parent is a process involving
• Deciding to have a baby
• Conception
• Gestation
• Birth
• Process of adapting to having the child at home
There are complex timing norms about relationships that are age and
duration graded
Ex) breast feeding
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Common reasons for wanting children:
1) Conformity: having children is what you do when you are an adult
-Experience: don’t want to miss out on the experience of having children
2)Social Capital: having children adds to the network of relationships an
individual has access to
-security in old change
Choosing NOT to have children:
• Okay to not want to be a partner ever
• Better to recognize that you don’t want to be a parent before you bring
one (or more) into the world
• Doesn’t mean you don’t like children
→things to consider:
• Kids are expensive= in Canada, avg cost of raising a child to age 18 is
243,660
• Complications: not everyone can physically make a baby
• Work: ex) LAT couples
• Parent is a noun and a verb
• This is a sacrifice, not to be taken lightly
→you have the right to define who you are however you want
-maybe you don’t want to be defined as a wife and/or mother, husband
and/or dad
Intended versus unintended parenthood:
• 40% of pregnancies in Canada are unplanned
• unintended children receive fewer parental resources
• less emotional and cognitive support
• harsher parenting and more punishment
• increased stress levels in parents and child
Actual and Desired Fertility
1) Intended fertility: how many children you would like to have
2)Actual fertility: TFR estimates based on: a women will be consistent with
her cohort, she will live until the end of her fertility
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Transition to Parenthood
→ structural factors:
-employment status =(in particular mothers and whether or not daycare is
needed)
-socioeconomic status and ethnicity= values and functions adults apply to
having children and number of children a couple desires
-family size norms= middle class women have fewer children, social
pressure from parents to have children
→psychosocial factors:
• Altruistic: unselfish desire to express affection and concern for children
• Generativity (ERIKSON): fulfillment of one’s psychological need to be
needed
• Fatalistic perspective: believe in procreation and continuation of family
name
• Instrumental reasons: children achieve things parents did not, please
ones own parents, secure an intimate relationship
Social Meaning of Parenthood
→6 social meanings of parenthood:
• Tend to be pro-natalist: not sure how prevalent these views are in society
today
1) Parenthood is a moral obligation: old testament directive to be fruitful and
multiply, obligated to reproduce and replenish society
2) parenthood is a civic responsibility: continuation of culture depends on
reproduction
3)Parenthood is natural for adults: expected and natural behavior of
adulthood, conception is natural consequence of intercourse (assumptions
made about individuals who are childless)
4)Parenthood is a statement of human sexuality: implies that individual
adult is capable of reproduction, part of persons sexual identity
5) Parenthood is a confirmation of marriage: parenthood gives true meaning
to a committed relationship b/w adults (believed to round out a marriage,
prevent divorce)
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Document Summary
Makes relationship to the parent durable , culturally and legally. 75% of couples: decline in their feelings of love, experience less motivation to work on the couple relationship w/ the birth of the 1st child, some couple relationships improve. But the transition to being a parent is a process involving: deciding to have a baby, conception, gestation, birth, process of adapting to having the child at home. There are complex timing norms about relationships that are age and duration graded. Common reasons for wanting children: conformity: having children is what you do when you are an adult. Experience: don"t want to miss out on the experience of having children. 2)social capital: having children adds to the network of relationships an individual has access to. Things to consider: kids are expensive= in canada, avg cost of raising a child to age 18 is.
