Choosing motherhood? Agency and regret within reproduction and mothering retrospective accounts

Donath, Orna

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.10.023

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“…In recent years, several researchers have pinpointed negative consequences of motherhood (see, e.g., Donath , ). In his overview of research on parenthood and happiness, Hansen (, p. 45) concluded that “folk theories” claiming that children make parents happy do not seem to hold true.…”

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Motherhood, Employment, and Life Satisfaction: Trends in Germany Between 1984 and 2015

Preisner

Neuberger

Posselt³

et al. 2018

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: This article analyzes trends in the relationships among motherhood, employment, and life satisfaction in Germany and regresses them on changing motherhood norms. Background: Motherhood norms have changed in recent decades in Germany, and differences in labor force participation between mothers and women without children have decreased. We research whether differences in life satisfaction have decreased at the same time. Method: Analyses are based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984 and restricted to women aged 16 to 45 (N = 18,238). A series of hybrid panel regressions was used to determine intrapersonal and interpersonal motherhood and employment effects on life satisfaction over decades. Polynomial regressions were used to relate these effects to changing motherhood norms.

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“…Childlessness, on the other hand, was seen as deviance or fate, but certainly as a source of unhappiness (cf. Coontz, ; Donath, ). In recent decades, traditional family ideologies and religious doctrines have lost ground in Germany, and life courses have become more diverse.…”

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Motherhood, Employment, and Life Satisfaction: Trends in Germany Between 1984 and 2015

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Neuberger

Posselt³

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J of Marriage and Family

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“…Indeed, Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries (3.03 versus, for example, 2.01 and 1.56 in the USA and Western Europe, respectively; CIA factbook, 2015a and Eurostat, 2015 , respectively) and tend to view child rearing as ‘life’s greatest joy’ ( Glickman, 2003 ). By the same token, barrenness often represents the quintessential female suffering, and voluntary childlessness is strongly condemned ( Donath, 2014 , Donath, 2015 ). Jewish religious authorities are equally pronatalist and gladly accommodate assisted reproductive technologies.…”

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Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel

Birenbaum‐Carmeli¹

2016

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries and view child-rearing as a key life accomplishment. These personal world-view and real-life individual quests take place in a context of equally pronatalist state policies and religious openness to assisted reproductive technologies. In this paper, I outline 35 years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel by tracing a principal axis in the development of three major technologies of assisted reproduction: the proliferation of IVF-ICSI; the globalization of gamete donation; and the privatization of surrogacy. The paper is based on a policy analysis as well as various studies of assisted reproductive technologies, conducted in Israel over this period.

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“…To sum up, the mass media provides rational arguments which challenge traditional pronatalist social norms protecting family and reproduction, which demystify motherhood revealing such less socially accepted feelings as regretting it (Donath, 2015a;2015b;. The significance of maternity is reduced to that of possible experiences, a wide range of which is offered by today's world (entertainment, travel, self-education, etc.).…”

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Depiction of Childlessness in Lithuanian Mass Media from 2011–2016: A Catalyst of Modernization

Rapolienė

Šumskaitė

2019

Ro. J. Comm. & PR

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Demographic research shows the increase of childlessness rates among women born in 1970 in comparison to those born in 1953 in Lithuania, but cultural aspects influencing reproductive behavior are under-explored. To our knowledge, the representation of childlessness in the Lithuanian mass media has not been studied yet. The aim of this article is to analyze how childlessness is depicted in the most popular mass media from 2011-2016. Our research revealed that the discourse of childlessness is undeveloped, and the depiction of voluntary childlessness is dominating. It is portrayed favorably as a modern behavior, space for which consolidation is created challenging traditional social norms. Thus Lithuanian media appear as a part of global media that promotes imitative trends of social change.

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Choosing motherhood? Agency and regret within reproduction and mothering retrospective accounts

Cited by 43 publications

References 16 publications

Motherhood, Employment, and Life Satisfaction: Trends in Germany Between 1984 and 2015

Motherhood, Employment, and Life Satisfaction: Trends in Germany Between 1984 and 2015

Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel

Depiction of Childlessness in Lithuanian Mass Media from 2011–2016: A Catalyst of Modernization

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