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Sodi, Edzisani Egnes. "Qualitative reflections on teenage motherhood experiences." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50433.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the current study was to undertake a phenomenological investigation on teenage motherhood and to learn how this experience forms part of the teenage mother's life. Using the snowball sampling method, five women aged between 26 and 35 years were selected to participate in the study. All the five women became mothers during their teenage years. Indepth interviews were conducted in Northern Sotho and Tshivenda depending on the language preference and fluency of the participant. The interviews were audio-taped, and later transcribed and translated. A phenomenological method of analysis was used to transform the original data into natural meaning units (NMUs) which were further interrogated so as to distil central sociological themes that were associated with the experience of teenage motherhood. Apart from the finding that the participants got pregnant when they were aged between 16 and 18, five sociological themes associated with teenage motherhood were identified. These are: • Lack of knowledge about sexual relationships contributes to teenage pregnancy and motherhood. • Early childbearing has a negative impact on the teenage mother's social relationships. • Teenage mothers tend to experience emotional problems after delivery of their babies. • Teenage motherhood has a long term disruptive effect on the teenage mother's educational and occupational opportunities. • Teenage motherhood leads to significant lifestyle changes for those who have been through the experience. In view of the above themes, sexual education both at school and at home, is suggested here as a more viable option to help minimise the risk of teenage motherhood in society. Whilst other options like abortion and the newly introduced child support grant are also available to the teenage mother, these are not considered favourable.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die huidige studie was om 'n fenomenologiese ondersoek oor tienermoederskap te doen en uit te vind hoe hierdie belewenis deel uitmaak van die tienermoeder se bestaan. Deur die sneeubaltoetsingsmetode is vyf vroue tussen die ouderdomme van 26 en 35 jaar gekies om deel te neem aan die studie. AI vyf vroue het tydens hulle tienerjare moeders geword. Diepteonderhoude is in Noord-Sotho en Venda gevoer, afhangende van die taalvoorkeur en -vlotheid van die deelnemer. Klankopnames is van die onderhoude gemaak wat later getranskribeer en vertaal is. 'n Fenomenologiese analisemetode is gebruik om die oorspronklike data na natuurlike betekeniseenhede (NMUs - natural meaning units) te herlei wat verder ondersoek is om sentrale sosiologiese temas geassosieer met die belewing van tienermoederskap te identifiseer. Behalwe vir die bevinding dat die deelnemers swanger geraak het toe hulle tussen die ouderdom van 16 en 18 jaar was, is vyf sosiologiese temas geassosieer met tienermoederskap geïdentifiseer. Hierdie temas is: • 'n Gebrek aan kennis oor seksuele verhoudings dra by tot die voorkoms van tienerswangerskappe en -moederskap. • Vroeë kinderbaring het 'n negatiewe impak op die tienermoeder se sosiale verhoudings. • Tienermoeders is geneig daartoe om emosionele probleme te ondervind na die geboortes van hulle babas. • Tienermoederskap het 'n langtermyn ontwrigtende effek op die tienermoeder se opvoedings- en werksgeleenthede. • Tienermoederskap lei tot betekenisvolle veranderinge in lewenstyl vir diegene wat die ondervinding deurgemaak het. Met inagneming van bogenoemde temas word hier voorgestel dat seksuele opvoeding beide op skool en by die huis 'n meer lewensvatbare opsie is om die risiko van tienermoederskap in die samelewing te verminder. Alhoewel ander opsies soos aborsies en die nuutingestelde toekennings van kinderonderhoud ook vir die tienermoeder beskikbaar is, word hierdie opsies nie as bevorderlik beskou nie.
Hui, Choi Wai-hing, and 許蔡惠卿. "The transition to motherhood for Chinese women." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39634012.
Full textWong, Lorrie. "Investigation into the Relationship Between Worry and Self Efficacy on Self-management in an Asian Pacific Islander Population with Type 2 Diabetes." Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22074.
Full textBen-Sira, Tallya. "Representation of motherhood in 19th and 20th century texts." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262312.
Full textArias, Bobbie Sue. "The Importance of Online Peer Relationships During the Transition to Motherhood: Do They Decrease Stress, Alleviate Depression and Increase Parenting Competence?" PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2946.
Full textChui, Chi Fai. "Rethinking the nature of motherhood and its influence on women's economic life." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1996. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/60.
Full textTsai, Shiow Meei. "Assessing the Relationship Between Transition to Motherhood, Early Mother-Infant Interaction, Stress, and Social Support Among Taiwanese First-Time Mothers." Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22072.
Full textNewell, Summer Brooke. "Reconciling the Opportunities and Obstacles of Motherhood Following Corrections Involvement." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4411.
Full textClowes, Lindsay. "Making it work : aspects of marriage, motherhood and money-earning among white South African women 1960-1990." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21733.
Full textThis study provides a feminist perspective on aspects of change in white women's lives in South Africa between 1960 and 1990. Changing patterns of women's work, where work encompasses unpaid domestic labour as well as paid employment outside the home, are traced. The different ways in which women have combined their socially defined obligations as wives and mothers, as employees or employers, are considered. The primary sources used include open-ended interviews with women, magazines and the publications of women's organisations. The period 1960-1973 was one in which most white women left the paid labour force after marrying. Towards the end of the period, in the context of a booming economy and a perceived shortage of skilled white labour, more white wives were remaining in employment after marriage. The media, women's organisations, the state, big business and white male workers were addressing, in different ways, the conflict between white wives entering paid employment and the necessity to protect traditional values whereby 'good' wives stayed at home. 1974-1984 saw large and increasing numbers of white wives taking up paid work, both part-time and full-time. The period saw employed wives becoming increasingly commonplace, while the range of occupations open to them expanded. Observing that most remained in the lower levels of corporate hierarchies, women's organisations focused on eliminating the 'glass ceilings' said to block women's entry to higher paid positions. By 1985-1990, women were encouraged to be ambitious, assertive and to strive for self-fulfilment through their careers. The conflict of trying to achieve in the male dominated business world, combined with a sexual division of labour that persisted in defining the home and the family as women's work, saw many women leave the work place to start up home-based businesses.
Jackiewicz, Stephanie. "The lived experience of a group of mothers, geographically isolated from their extended families, in establishing their social support networks." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/984.
Full textMillar, Jillian M. "Self-reported stress and posttraumatic growth following the transition to motherhood : investigating the role of social support and self-efficacy." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/562.
Full textFrança, Giselli de Oliveira. "Trajetórias afetivas, sexuais e reprodutivas de jovens mulheres em vulnerabilidade social: experiências de socialização." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8457.
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This qualitative research aims to analyze the emotional, sexual and reproductive trajectories of young mothers who have experienced social vulnerability, including the condition of institutional shelters. The goal is to evaluate how young girls perceive the relationship between their life experiences and how they experience sexuality, maternity and affection. The concept of socialization adopts Berger and Luckmann referential, and the gender concept follows the definition of Joan Scott. The methodology of History of Life, within the field of Oral History was adopted. Five interviews with young mothers who had the experience of sheltering next to Sorocaba (SP) were conducted. Two interviews were transcribed in full and deeply examined. In the analysis, the impact of various socializing agents was discussed- public and private, and the social construction of women's identities, especially motherhood. The analysis of the life stories of these young people allows us to understand motherhood as a marker of their sedentarization, who usually have a history marked by nomadism. Moreover, the reports allowed reflections on gender relations, the social and historical construction of the role of women in our society. The absence of programmatic responses referring to this population was discussed, as well.
Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que objetiva analisar as trajetórias afetivas, sexuais e reprodutivas de jovens mães que vivenciaram situações de vulnerabilidade social, incluindo a condição de abrigamento institucional. Objetiva-se avaliar como as jovens percebem a relação entre suas experiências de vida e a forma como vivenciam a sexualidade, a maternidade e o afeto. O conceito de socialização é compreendido a partir do referencial de Berger e Luckmann, e o de gênero, pela definição de Joan Scott. Adotou-se a metodologia de História de vida, dentro do campo da História Oral. Foram realizados encontros com cinco jovens mães que passaram pela experiência de abrigamento em uma instituição da região de Sorocaba (SP) específica para essa população. Duas entrevistas foram transcritas na íntegra e analisadas em profundidade. Na análise, discutiu-se o impacto dos diversos agentes socializadores – públicos e privados, e a construção social das identidades femininas, especialmente a da maternidade. A análise das histórias de vida dessas jovens permitiu compreender a maternidade como um marcador do processo de sedentarização dessas jovens que em geral possuem uma história marcada pelo nomadismo. Além disso, os relatos possibilitaram reflexões acerca das relações de gênero, da construção social e histórica do papel da mulher em nossa sociedade. Ainda discutiu-se a ausência de respostas programáticas voltadas à essa população.
Featherstone, Lisa. "Breeding and feeding: a social history of mothers and medicine in Australia, 1880-1925." Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38533.
Full textBibliography: p. 417-478.
Introduction: breeding and feeding -- The medical man: sex, science and society -- Confined: women and obstetrics 1880-1899 -- The kindest cut? The caesarean section as turning point -- Reproduction in decline -- Resisting reproduction: women, doctors and abortion -- From obstetrics to paediatrics: the rise of the child -- The breast was best: medicine and maternal breastfeeding -- The deadly bottle and the dangers of the wet nurse: the "artificial" feeding of infants -- Surveillance and the mother -- Mothers and medicine: paradigms of continuity and change.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw profound changes in Australian attitudes towards maternity. Imbibed with discourses of pronatalism and eugenics, the production of infants became increasingly important to society and the state. Discourses proliferated on "breeding", and while it appeared maternity was exulted, the child, not the mother, was of ultimate interest. -- This thesis will examine the ways wider discourses of population impacted on childbearing, and very specifically the ways discussions of the nation impacted on medicine. Despite its apparent objectivity, medical science both absorbed and created pronatalism. Within medical ideology, where once the mother had been the point of interest, the primary focus of medical care, increasingly medical science focussed on the life of the infant, who was now all the more precious in the role of new life for the nation. -- While all childbirth and child-rearing advice was formed and mediated by such rhetoric, this thesis will examine certain key issues, including the rise of the caesarean section, the development of paediatrics and the turn to antenatal care. These turning points can be read as signifiers of attitudes towards women and the maternal body, and provide critical material for a reading of the complexities of representations of mothers in medical discourse.
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Thompson, Susannah Ruth. "Birth pains : changing understandings of miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death in Australia in the Twentieth Century." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0150.
Full textMcMillen, Brooke. "Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1613.
Full textDepartment of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Peggy Zeglin Brand, Jason T. Eberl, Michael B. Burke. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-84).
Khadra, Salma. "Garçon fantasmé, fille née : étude psychanalytique des enjeux de la réalité sociale patriarcale sur le destin du féminin chez des femmes libanaises." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC033.
Full textLebanon is based on a patriarchal society whose multiple demands include the birth of a boy within families. We have seen that this requirement is supported by the women themselves, who say they want more than anything the motherhood of a son, if possible the first born. This desire so often expressed seems to support Freud's phallocentric theory, which poses for women a primary desire for the penis and its resolution through the birth of a male child. However, other theories on the psychosexual development of women have already emerged among Freud's direct disciples and then in contemporary psychoanalytical theorizations.We wanted to explore this question by studying, through clinical research interviews and the passing of projective tests, the psychosexual development of young women to whom from an early age, their environment and especially their mother, had explicitly told them that they had wanted a boy during their pregnancy.If this did not allow us to settle the debate between phallocentric theory and other theories, our work has shown that when the unconscious desire, certainly driven by its unconscious conflicts related to its own psychosexual development, meets the desire to respond as well as possible to the social constraint of patriarchal society, women enjoy a certain fulfillment. On the other hand, it must be noted that, otherwise, women pay a heavy price in the form of accidents or voluntary perinatal events and great psychological suffering. We have also been able to highlight the induction of disorders in early relationships with their newborn daughter who make the bed at a deadly transgenerational repetition. Thus, in turn, and despite the fact that they regret having suffered from their status as born girls, they wish to give birth to a boy
Vennat, Delphine. "Devenir mère et défaut d'étayage familial dans le post-partum immédiat : une étude clinique, longitudinale et comparative à domicile des 2 semaines aux 18 mois du bébé." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCC016/document.
Full textThe intersubjective family dimension of becoming a mother during the sensitive postpartum period has been little discussed in psychoanalysis or in other currents in psychology. Hypotheses: the lack of family's shoring in the immediate post-partum impact the motherhood processes: her psychic state (depression and anxiety). the establishment of maternai processes (primary maternai concern and maternai reverie), as well as the fate of her hostile motions in her relations. Epistemological approaches: clinical psychology and psychopathology with other contributions. Longitudinal and comparative mixed (clinical and quantitative) method in a sample of 35 families. Tools : interviews. observations and self-questionnaires assessing the psychic state of the mother (EPDS and STAI). her conjugal relationship (DAS), parental relationship (PAi) and her internai resources (RSQ and PBI). Results: Mothers with little family support are more likely to show signs of psychic distress and these signs persist over time, 6 months after the child birth. The analysis of three clinical cases makes it possible to follow over time the complexity of maternai processes, their links with family's shoring and the intra-psychic, intersubjective and societal factors that support or weaken them. The mother's hostile motions. not contained in the extended family, fuel her distress and her whole relationship with the spouse. father, and / or child. Conclusion: the necessary psychic work of becoming a mother in the immediate postpartum can not be considered without her family support network. This one is in interaction with her internai supports and depends on the relations with the father. The social context influences it. Consequences: this research shows the importance of taking into account, for the mother, the need in reality of the family support just after the birth and the setting up of adapted professional support
Bazire, Anaelle. "Toxicomanie et materneité : qualité du processus de maternalité chez la femme toxicomane." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMC029/document.
Full textMotherhood among women addicted to psychoactive substances is a public health concern. Our research concerns the predictive potential of the psychic reorganizations observed during pregnancy on the quality of motherhood process and of investment of the child. It is thus a psychodynamic clinical and projective study of the evolution of the psychic functioning and the representations bound to the child of drug addict woman and/or woman receiving opiate substitution treatments becoming a mother. In order to do this, we rely on the analysis of semi-directive interviews and projective tests of women opiate users and\or women receiving opiate substitution treatments and of non-addicted women, between the last quarter of pregnancy and on one year old of the child. A second part of this study proposes a state of play of welfare measures for pregnant addicted women and addicted mothers on West-Norman territory. It also proposes a project of specific and multidisciplinary accompaniment of this population which is developed within a CSAPA (Center of addiction care, support and prevention)
De, Gunzbourg Hélène. "Projeté dans le monde : vers une éthique de la sage-femme." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00712582.
Full textCONDY, Ann. "Orientations towards motherhood and childlessness, and social pressures to conform." Doctoral thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5221.
Full textExamining Board: Dr. Joan Busfield (University of Essex) ; Prof. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (EUI, supervisor) ; Prof. Janet Finch (Lancaster University, co-supervisor) ; Prof. Lee Rainwater (Harvard University) ; Prof. Annemette Sørensen (Harvard University)
The research explores women’s attitudes towards and motivation to remain childless or childfree. In the mid 1980s, most research including much feminist literature assumed that all women desired children. And yet there was a growing paradox in the UK: British culture and society was largely ‘pronatalist’ and, while some ‘antinatalist’ rhetoric was present, it was directed at lower income groups. Yet it was among middle income women that parenthood was being delayed to the point where some demographers acknowledged that it could result in permanent childlessness. The literature review included the biological, sociological, gender studies, and psychological literature (largely American or Canadian; few relevant British studies were found); pronatalist and antinatalist ideologies; and demographic trends. The empirical research focused on women teachers in the UK. A collaboration was developed with the Inner London Teachers’ Association, which was willing to provide access to their list of teachers and fund a questionnaire survey, due to its interest in learning about early infertility. The research included a questionnaire on attitudes to childlessness administered to 1,000 London based teachers, followed up by 19 in-depth interviews.
"母乳與牛奶: 近代中國嬰兒哺育與母親角色的重塑, 1900-1937." Thesis, 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6075412.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-248)
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Abstracts in Chinese and English.
Lu Shuying.
Nakamura, Yuko. "Beyond invisible motherhood : how women make decisions not to have children within the prevailing understandings of childlessness in Japan." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/69733.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2007
Kennedy, Umit. "Becoming on YouTube : exploring the automedial identities and narratives of Australian mummy vlogging." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:51579.
Full textMokoena, Tebogo. "Exploring the impact of teenage pregnancy on disadvantaged adolescents in Mpumalanga." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26145.
Full textTeenage pregnancy remains a major social, economic and health challenge in South Africa. The consequences of unplanned teenage pregnancies are devastating. The current study explored the impact of teenage pregnancy on disadvantaged adolescents in Mpumalanga. Fourteen adolescent girls were selected, using the purposive sampling technique. The objectives were to explore the experiences of adolescence, as well as their knowledge of various methods of preventing teenage pregnancy, and how they cope with the pregnancy. The study further explored programmes that are available to assist with teenage pregnancies in the community. Data was collected using in-depth one on one interviews to allow the researcher a platform to ask open-response questions. The data was thematically analysed by carefully categorising and expanding significant themes that emerged from the participant’s responses. The study revealed that lack of knowledge about sex and contraceptives, unhealthy coping strategies, lack of support from parents and peer pressure are all effects of teenage pregnancy and the reasons for participating in unprotected sexual activities. Recommendations for overcoming these challenges were provided to the community, schools and government organisations as guidelines in the establishment of youth programmes.
Psychology
M.A. (Psychology)
Tengimfene, Nikelwa F. "The work-family conflict experienced by South African women of different race groups : a phenomenological study." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3181.
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Thesis (M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psycology))