amanda hooper fhs2400 creative project summer 2014 becoming parents & experiencing parenthood
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AMANDA HOOPERFHS2400
CREATIVE PROJECTSUMMER 2014
Becoming Parents & Experiencing Parenthood
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Unmarried Parenthood
-Births to unmarried women represented almost 40% of births in America.
-A global growth. Since 1980 many countries have almost doubled in percentages of births to unmarried women, though some numbers are low, the growth is evident.
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Childless, Impaired Fecundity, Child Free Couples
Involuntarily childless
-70 million of 800 million married or in consensual relationships have an impaired ability to conceive.
-40 million are seeking fertility treatment.
Impaired Fecundity
-Broader term for troubles in conceiving, carrying pregnancy to term, or have a physical impairment that would endanger child and mother.
Child Free
-expect and intend to remain nonparents
-consider themselves “free” versus prior connotations of sympathetic objects.
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Adoptive Families
-Alternative to pregnancy or infertility
-Adoption of stepchildren, by a relatve, adoption of adolescents, two or more siblings, foster care children.
-Ideological against birthing a child, cause of overpopulation, provide families for older or disabled children.
-Open Adoption- keeping the biological parents in the life of the adopted child. Helping with the meaning of adoption.
-Closed or open adoption children are not affected by their selfesteem or satisfaction with their situation.
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Gay and Lesbian Parenting
-quality of parenting and harmony with in the family that matters to children
-no differences between heterosexual couples children and children of gay and lesbian couples]
-expierence the same joys and pains, but also face biggotry and insensitivity with in society towards themselves and towards their families.
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Nonparental Household
-A household where there are not any biological parents.
-3/4 of children living in nonparental households live with relatives, usually with a grandparent.
-Children in nonparental homes show negative effects such as mental health, behavioral and academic issues, as well as drug abuse.
-Sun argues that it is the absence of the mother that has the greatest effect.
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Parents with Adult Children
-Children are “growing up” slower now than in the past.
-Less than half of women and a less than a third of men had accomplished the five traditionally adult transitions; leaving parental home, completing school, financial independence, marrying, and becoming parent.
-Parents are affected by their adult childrens circumsatnces, providing child care, financial assistance, house keeping, shelter etc.
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Love Makes a Family*No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation*