Becoming Parents & Experiencing Parenthood

1. Becoming Parents & Experiencing Parenthood Amanda Hooper FHS2400 Creative Project Summer 2014

2. -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. Unmarried Parenthood

3. 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. Childless, Impaired Fecundity, Child Free Couples

4. -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. Adoptive Families

5. -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. Gay and Lesbian Parenting

6. -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. Nonparental Household

7. -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 childrenscircumsatnces, providing child care, financial assistance, house keeping, shelter etc. Parents with Adult Children

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