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Chapter 12 To Parent or Not to Parent

Chapter 12 To Parent or Not to Parent. Key Terms. total fertility rate Number of births a typical woman will have over her lifetime. pronatalist bias View that having children is taken for granted, whereas not having children must be justified.

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Chapter 12 To Parent or Not to Parent

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  1. Chapter 12To Parent or Not to Parent Key Terms

  2. total fertility rateNumber of births a typical woman will have over her lifetime. • pronatalist biasView that having children is taken for granted, whereas not having children must be justified.

  3. structural antinatalismValues, laws,employment policies and culture are inimical to children and disastrous for committed parents. • paradoxical pregnancyThe more guilty and disapproving the young women are about premarital sex, the less likely they are to use contraceptives regularly.

  4. abortionThe expulsion of the fetus or embryo from the uterus either naturally or medically. • involuntary infertilityThe condition of wanting to conceive and bear a child but being physically unable to do so.

  5. public adoptionsAdoptions through licensed agencies that place children with adoptive families. • private adoptionsArranged directly between adoptive parents and the biological or birth mother, usually through an attorney.

  6. closed adoptionThe adoptive and biological families have no communication and do not know one another's identities. • open adoptionInvolves some direct contact with the biological and adoptive parents.

  7. semi-open adoptionBiological and adoptive families exchange personal information but have no direct contact. • disrupted adoptionsChild is returned to the agency before the adoption is final.

  8. dissolved adoptionsChild is returned after the adoption is final.

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