Becoming a Parent: Contemporary Contexts and Challenges During the Transition to Parenthood

ISBN-13: 9781108799287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str.

Sydney) McMahon Catherine (Macquarie University

Opis

Provides an evidence-based overview of the challenges of becoming a parent in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

Recenzje

'Becoming a Parent is a twenty-first century book that captures the incredible variability as well as the predictable universalities of this important life transition. Carefully edited interviews with women and men from highly diverse backgrounds make the research-based information come alive. A must-read for students, educators, and policy makers.' Marsha Weinraub, Temple University, USA

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Contemplating parenthood: why children?; 2. Reproductive technologies; 3. Becoming a mother; 4. Becoming a father; 5. High stakes pregnancies: the impact of infertility, risk, and loss; 6. Alternative pathways: becoming a parent through reproductive donation, or adoption; 7. Childbirth; 8. The 4th trimester; 9. The way forward: clinical, social, and policy initiatives to support new parents.