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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2013 Little is known about the role that online support communities play in the lives of women faced with permanent involuntary childlessness. To understand the experiences of these women, this study conducted a thematic analysis of messages downloaded from ...
Sumaira H. Malik, Neil S. Coulson
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Experiences of involuntary childlessness during the COVID-19 pandemic
, 2022 BACKGROUNDThe overall purpose is to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected individuals who have been or are going through assessment or treatment for involuntary childlessness, and their processes of trying to have children. Previous research
Bodin, Maja, +5 more
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
, 2017 Lifetime childlessness has increased in Europe. The relationship between childlessness and psychological wellbeing varies by the wellbeing measures employed, life stage and societal context.
Delaney, Liam +3 more
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Incidental Findings From Treatment Response Monitoring in Oncological Care: Ethical Reflections
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The question of how to handle incidental findings in medicine has attracted a lot of attention in the bioethics literature. The most widely discussed examples come from genetics (e.g., next generation sequencing) and medical imaging (e.g., neuroimaging).
Jasper Debrabander +2 more
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A Model of Voluntary Childlessness [PDF]
Demographers and sociologists have studied and asked for a theory of childlessness for more than two decades, however, this specific choice of zero fertility has not interested economists.
Paula E. GOBBI
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Mis(sed) Conceptions: Motherhood Through the Lens of Involuntary Childlessness [PDF]
, 2014 The present study examined predictors of fertility-specific distress in the experience of involuntary childlessness. One hundred and twelve women took part in this online study. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Fertility Problem
Brody, Jessica
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, 2016 Family scholars studying voluntary childlessness have increasingly focused on how to define the empirical boundaries of the childfree, attitudes toward voluntary childlessness, reasons behind remaining childless, and consequences of childlessness at ...
Tunalilar, Ozcan, Ozcan Tunalilar
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