becoming parents & experiencing parenthood

AMANDA HOOPERFHS2400

CREATIVE PROJECTSUMMER 2014

Becoming Parents & Experiencing Parenthood

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love Makes a Family*No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation*