This article analyses juridical discourses about Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in Portugal, focusing specifically on the access of lesbians to this type of intervention. Empirical data refer to an exploratory research that combined the analysis of legislation with non-directive interviews to five judges from Family and Juvenile Courts of Law of the Northern Region of Portugal. One argue...

Introduction Poor quality of care remains key constraint to safe motherhood especially for women from poor families in a context of rapid expansion of maternity healthcare services. In India, deliveries at healthcare institutions have increased in last three years. There is evidence that oxytocin is a drug is often misused to speed labours (childbirth) in overcrowded labour wards or even in hom...

While neuroevolution (evolving neural networks) has a successful track record across a variety of domains from reinforcement learning to artificial life, it is rarely applied to large, deep neural networks. A central reason is that while random mutation generally works in low dimensions, a random perturbation of thousands or millions of weights is likely to break existing functionality, providi...

Little is known about the role that online support communities play in the lives of women faced with permanent involuntary childlessness. To understand the experiences of these women, this study conducted a thematic analysis of messages downloaded from an online community for permanent involuntary childlessness. Four central themes were identified: Feeling like an “outsider”, A whole lifetime o...

This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers. The focus is on how lone mothers from two different age cohorts construct their identity around motherhood and lone motherhood. Thus historical context becomes an important element in the analysis.

This article proposes to explore the biographic accounts and everyday experiences of cisgender women who, for various reasons biopsychosocial conditions, are not mothers. From a feminist focus using qualitative methodology, it looks at complex nature experience who felt desire be mothers started out on quest motherhood. As result thematic analysis their accounts, we find that some have undergon...

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

BACKGROUND While studies on fertility and contraceptives issues are available, until recently adolescent motherhood has not received enough attention among policy makers in understanding adolescent motherhood in Bangladesh. We aimed to examine the trends and determinants of adolescent motherhood among women aged 15-49 years. METHODS For trend analysis we used all the 7 waves of Bangladesh Dem...